. The teachings on discipleship should be reflected in a person life everyday. The Gospel is important and relevant for all Christians today.The disciples were willing to leave everything they owned. They gave up everything for Jesus

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The Gospel is the word of God and a source of moral and spiritual guidance for Christians. The teachings on discipleship should be reflected in a person life everyday. The Gospel is important and relevant for all Christians today.

The disciples were willing to leave everything they owned. They gave up everything for Jesus. There are many examples in the world today that have done as the disciples did and gave up everything to follow Jesus’ example. Nun’s monks and priests are all examples who have taken Jesus’ word literally and gave up everything to follow Jesus. They depend on nothing but God to help them through the difficult times they will face. The most obvious example is mother Teresa.

Mother Teresa was born in Skopje, Macedonia, on August 27, 1910. At the age of twelve, she felt strongly the call of God. She knew she had to be a missionary to spread the love of Christ. At the age of eighteen she left her parental home in Skopje and joined the Sisters of Loreto. She was sent to India, where on May 24, 1931, she took her initial vows as a nun. The suffering and poverty she glimpsed outside the convent walls made such a deep impression on her that in 1948 she received permission from her superiors to leave the convent school and devote herself to working among the poorest of the poor in the slums of Calcutta. She had no funds but started an open-air school for slum children. Mother Teresa received permission from the Holy See to start her own order, "The Missionaries of Charity", whose primary task was to love and care for those persons nobody was prepared to look after. She like Jesus believed she was on earth to serve others not herself Like Jesus we belong to the world living not for ourselves but for others. The joy of the Lord is our strength.”

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Oscar Romero is another example of someone who scarified everything to help others. was a  of the  in . he witnessed numerous violations of  and began a ministry speaking out on behalf of the poor and victims of the country's civil war. His brand of political activism was denounced by the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church and the government of El Salvador. Romero spoke out against  military aid to the new government and wrote to President  in February  warning that increased military aid would "undoubtedly sharpen the injustice and the repression inflicted on the organized people, whose struggle has ...

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