The leader of the adult Lenten study course asked the class, “Who wants to read Luke 9: 57 to 62?”

“I will,” one woman said, and read aloud, ”Someone said to Jesus, ‘I will follow you wherever you go.’

“And Jesus said to him, ‘Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests; but [I] have nowhere to lay [my] head.’

“To another he said, ‘Follow me.’ But he said, ‘Lord, first let me go and bury my father.’

“But Jesus said to him, ‘Let the dead bury their own dead; but as for you, go and proclaim the kingdom of God.’

“Another said, ‘I will follow you, Lord; but first let me say farewell to those...