Discipleship.
The word stirs...what? Fear? Loathing? Memories of the series of one hour classes on Wednesday nights?
We in the West -- especially in the American Protestant Evangelical Post-modern West (how about THAT for a mouthful?) -- have a fairly poor understanding of what it means to be a disciple. Our frame of reference suffers from a contextual blindness. We do not today have a working discipleship model in either our religious or our work-a-day lives.
What does it mean, then, to be a disciple of Jesus? How (as the question has it) then should we live?
The word stirs...what? Fear? Loathing? Memories of the series of one hour classes on Wednesday nights?
We in the West -- especially in the American Protestant Evangelical Post-modern West (how about THAT for a mouthful?) -- have a fairly poor understanding of what it means to be a disciple. Our frame of reference suffers from a contextual blindness. We do not today have a working discipleship model in either our religious or our work-a-day lives.
What does it mean, then, to be a disciple of Jesus? How (as the question has it) then should we live?
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