as on many other occasions, they came away with their hearts aflame. A vital principle of discipleship emerges at this point: Do not recruit people for anything without first allowing them to have their curiosity assuaged. Jesus was not afraid to reveal the small print in the contract. We get the distinct impression from this passage that Jesus desired to make it easy to say no. He did not employ the misguided habit of twenty-first-century Christendom of “quick-pitching” people into commitments.