When Christ called the disciples, He issued a simple command, Follow Me.  When He calls a person today it is that same simple command.  He never says become good enough or righteous enough, He simply calls for a person to follow Him.  We are called to follow Him for God's glory and mankind's redemption.  When we start to claim that following Him leads to riches or our own glory, we have missed the call.  The claim that God wants me to be happy so He therefore wants me to have the things I want is not what we were called for.  We are called to be like Christ, Who in the Garden prayed, "Not my will but Thine be done."  With a handful of disciples, He turned the world upside down.  To often today, though, I am afraid the world has turned His people upside down.  We want to look and sound like the rest of the world. Instead of going boldly into the world showing the love of God, we too often withdraw from the world and denounce those in it.  If we are truly to follow Christ,then we must reach out to the world in love and compassion.  Only then will we start to make a difference.