Pilgrims and Strangers: Saints are Called to Be

Then the LORD said to Abram, “Leave your country, your kindred, and your father’s household, and go to the land I will show you.

…and told him, ‘Leave your country and your kindred and go to the land I will show you.’

“If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters—yes, even his own life—he cannot be My disciple.

And whoever does not carry his cross and follow Me cannot be My disciple.

In the same way, any one of you who does not give up everything he has cannot be My disciple.