Do I have to sell everything that I have to follow Jesus?
[Note to congregation on why I hand out the text. I would love you to take it home with you. To reread it, to think it through for yourself. Possibly to learn a verse. To live with it. To let it become part of you. And the purpose of this talk is not to entertain, or to give you a solid interpretation of the passage (I couldn't possibly do that, and I cannot claim to begin to have understood it), but to give you a fascination for the passage – and a desire to look at ...