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Would You Give Everything Up for God? Christian Actresses Talk True Discipleship

Candace Cameron Bure prays at the Movieguide® Awards Gala.

Would You Give Everything Up for God? Christian Actresses Talk True Discipleship

By Movieguide® Contributor

If God asked you to give up everything, would you? That was the question posed in a discussion between Christian actresses Priscilla Shirer and Candace Cameron Bure.

“Everything — the way you spend your money, your entertainment choices, how you focus your time and attention — when the Lord is asking us to come with Him on a journey that looks different than we expected, are we willing to go in obedience?” Shirer asked. “Or are we resistant to that? And for most of us, we’re resistant. We’re like ‘No, this is the way. I want it this is the way. I’d like to have it. This is comfortable for me.'”

We see a clear example of this in the Bible when Jesus calls his twelve disciples to “leave everything and follow me.”

“…because He was here physically at the time, there was more clarity to them on what that meant,” Shirer explained. “Like to us…it’s so figurative and theoretical that we can’t actually put concrete fingers to what it looks like to follow Jesus. But when we look back at the model of what discipleship was then, we see it clearly because leaving everything to follow Jesus was not in theory. It was leave your home, leave your people, leave your comforts.”

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Bure acknowledged the weight of leaving everything behind like the disciples did. “When I think of that. I’m like, ‘Candace, would you have the strength to actually just legit leave it all? I don’t know,” she reflected.

Shirer added, “Are we willing to prioritize Him over and above? And only we know the contents of our heart and whether or not it’s situated and postured that way.”

In the Bible, Jesus makes it clear that we are to lay everything down for Him and that doing so will be worth it. Matthew 16:24-26 says, “Then Jesus told his disciples, ‘If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what shall a man give in return for his soul?”

Both actresses often point their followers to Christ.

In a recent Instagram post, Shirer wrote, “Choose Jesus. And do it now.” She added in the caption, “Time is running out.”

Bure has been serving others as fires ravaged Los Angeles over the last week.

“Friends, thank you for caring about Los Angeles. It’s been incredible to watch our city come together in crisis❤️‍🩹. I wish it were like this all the time,” she wrote on Instagram. “I’m continuing to post resources for those needing help and wanting to help. Please check my stories and the highlight bubble I created with links. Bless you for helping and being the hands and feet of Jesus.”


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