Monday, January 15
Mere Discipleship
I began a new book today.
Mere Discipleship by Lee C. Camp, (thanks to Mark Whited from the U. of Evansville for the recommendation)
We begin discussing the book tomorrow morning at our ‘Church of Panera’. Man, I love this time each Tuesday morning with my whole grain bagels, my ice tea and some really good friends talking about God and His place in our lives.
Here is the quote from the first page of the book:
Jesus was not a moralist whose teachings had some political implications; He was not primarily a teacher of spirituality whose public ministry unfortunately was seen in a political light; He was not just a sacrificial lamb preparing for His immolation, or God-Man whose divine status calls us to disregard His humanity. Jesus was, in His divinely mandated prophethood, priesthood, and kingship, the bearer of a new possibility of human, social, and therefore political relationships. His baptism is the inauguration and His cross is the culmination of that new regime in which His disciples are called to share. Hearers or readers may choose to consider that kingdom as not real, or not relevant, or not possible, or not inviting; but...no such slicing can avoid His call to an ethic marked by the cross, a cross identified as the punishment of a man who threatens society by creating a new kind of community leading a radically new kind of life.This should be good…
-John Howard Yoder
Mark Nelson at 10:02 PM 1comments
