Gary Jones fills the pulpit this week as Mike is away on vacation. (Note: Due to an audio error, the recording starts about seven minutes into Gary’s sermon.)

“Whose voice are you listening to?”

You have been called to follow Jesus, just as the apostles were called by Jesus. What better way could there be in understanding what our response should be to that call — the things that we should be doing in loving service to Jesus — than to look at the lives of those apostles?

What did the apostles find? What did they know, that they would willingly give their lives for Jesus?

That same Jesus is alive and working in our lives today as well. In this lesson, Gary leads us on a journey to discover exactly why the apostles responded as they did; to understand why they followed the voice of Jesus.

“As Jesus was walking beside the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon called Peter and his brother Andrew. They were casting a net into the lake, for they were fishermen. “Come, follow me,” Jesus said, “and I will send you out to fish for people.” At once they left their nets and followed him. Going on from there, he saw two other brothers, James son of Zebedee and his brother John. They were in a boat with their father Zebedee, preparing their nets. Jesus called them, and immediately they left the boat and their father and followed him.

Matthew 4:18-22 (NIV)

“We proclaim to you the one who existed from the beginning, whom we have heard and seen. We saw him with our own eyes and touched him with our own hands. He is the Word of life. This one who is life itself was revealed to us, and we have seen him. And now we testify and proclaim to you that he is the one who is eternal life. He was with the Father, and then he was revealed to us. We proclaim to you what we ourselves have actually seen and heard so that you may have fellowship with us. And our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ. We are writing these things so that you may fully share our joy.

1 John 1:1-4 (NLT)