God was someone who required a lot and was not easy to satisfy.

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Discipleship is moving forward a step at a time, discovering the heart of Jesus, learning to enjoy the presence of God, being helped to live from the Spirit within; and being taught from Scripture what pleases the Lord.

The devoted followers of Jesus were not an all-male group.

There was accountability.

And they witnessed a new kind of authority, both in teaching and in casting out demons, such as no one else possessed.

Was the old Simon coming to the surface?

I wish someone could have warned me just then?

‘Can we afford not to?’