Jesus Inoculation

I was listening to Matt Chandler (Pastor of The Village Church in Dallas) the other day and he said this, "People have enough of Jesus to be inoculated to the whole of him."

To be inoculated is to have a disease introduced into your system for the purpose of creating a resistance to that disease.

What he is getting at is that we have little doses of Jesus and the result is that we never get the whole of Jesus. To have a little Jesus and not the whole of him is to not have him at all. Jesus calls us to take up our cross (daily make a decision to die to self and self born desires) and follow him.