Jesus did not call men merely to admire Him, agree with Him, or add Christianity to an otherwise unchanged life. He called men to follow Him. Follow Me Daily exists to help men take that command seriously, one day at a time, by opening the Scriptures, understanding what God actually said, and then asking what obedience requires of us now.
That means we begin where biblical interpretation has to begin: with the text in its own world. We ask what the author intended, what the first hearers would naturally have understood, and what was happening historically, culturally, politically, and spiritually when those words were given. Only then do we turn toward ourselves. We must know what it meant to the original hearers before we can know what it means to us today.
I am doing this as an older man who has been following Christ since He saved me in 1977. Not perfectly. Not as a spiritual success story. The road has included obedience and failure, confession and repentance, gratitude and grief, getting back up and following Him again. After forty-eight years, I increasingly believe one stewardship of an older man is to let younger men see what a long life of dependence upon Christ actually looks like.
These are not separate programs. They are different doors into the same life of following Jesus.
Open the passage, understand it in context, and face the day’s challenge to obedience.
Meaning before application. Authorial intent, historical particularity, then obedience.
Gratitude, love, obedience, failure, repentance, worship, and getting back up.
Husbands, fathers, sons, brothers, workers, protectors, providers, leaders, and servants under Christ.
Why age should carry honor, why older men must become respectable, and why younger men need lives worth watching.
Return to earlier readings, passages, challenges, and steps of obedience.
Jesus’ summary of the Law is rooted in the Shema: love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, and mind, and love your neighbor as yourself. That is the common ground here. There are no separate accountability teams. We are men trying to obey the same Lord together.
When a man takes a concrete step of obedience after a reading, he can share it with all the men for open accountability. If something needs the discretion of an older man, he can send it to me privately. The point is not surveillance. It is to refuse the modern temptation to make discipleship private, abstract, and spectator-like.