She could set her ticket prices at hundreds, even thousands of dollars, and still sell out in a few hours. The problem, though, would be that only the wealthy would get to go - which, in Adele’s mind, is not fair.

So as Adele’s star began to rise, along with her fan base and bank account, she decided to do something radical.

In 2015, when Adele announced her first album tour in 4 years, she decided to set her ticket prices low - just $50 a ticket - and to make sure that the big scalping companies couldn’t swoop in and gobble up all the tickets, she partnered with a tech company that had an algorithm to identify Adele’s biggest fans - and offer them tickets, first.

20% of her tickets in select markets were sold this way, and the percentage of those Adele fans who bought them and turned around and scalped them was very, very low - meaning that those loyal fans who wanted to see Adele, could go, regardless of their wealth.

Accountants estimate Adele lost millions of dollars doing this.

And so we may wonder: what made Adele ‘drop the nets’ and let all that wealth slip past her?

Maybe the same thing that made those early disciples do the same thing.

This Sunday, you and I will hear the familiar story of Jesus calling his first disciples, fishermen, Peter and Andrew, to do something radical: leave behind their prosperous fishing business, and follow a penniless prophet who preached a re-ordered set of values.

We can look at it as a classic re-shuffling: knocking the security of profits off the top tier and lifting up Jesus’ values of purpose, community, fairness, selflessness, and love.

We often think the disciples left everything to follow Jesus. They didn’t. The scriptures say Peter still had his home, and many of them would return to their fishing boats after the resurrection. But what they did is leave behind the way they ranked their values - reshuffling them according to the Jesus Way.

In a country where we have profits without prosperity, we know firsthand what a fickle God money is. And Jesus’ invitation is for you and me to reshuffle our values as well - taking up his invitation to follow him - and to put community, peace, selflessness, and love in first place. 

How is Jesus inviting us to reshuffle our values?

In what ways are we being asked to drop the nets and follow?