The theme of our recent Irish Methodist conference and for our new President Rev. Dr. Heather Morris was "A People Invited to Follow..." With that in mind here is a dramatised reading I put together for another conference event 9 years ago, which we are using as a call to worship this morning: Reader 1: As Jesus was walking beside the Sea of Galilee , he saw two brothers, Simon called Peter and his brother Andrew. They were casting a net into the lake, for they were fishermen. Reader 2: "Come, follow me," Jesus said, "and I will make you fishers of men." Reader 1: At once they left their nets and followed him. Reader 2: As they were walking along the road, a man said to Jesus, Reader 1: "I will follow you wherever you go." Reader 2: Jesus replied, "Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head." Reader 1: He said
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