ChosenRebel's Blog

Wednesday is for Discussion

I want to prime the pump of our minds with a question and start a discussion.

What would we do differently in our churches if we were really serious about raising the bar on what it means to be a disciple?

Here’s a list to prime the pump of our thinking: I think we might start with …

• expecting a greater involvement in reaching the lost from the the very start.
• giving more opportunity earlier for them to demonstrate faithfulness.
• putting them in faith stretching situations earlier.
• emphasizing eschatology–Jesus is coming again to judge the living and the dead. (1 Thessalonians is written to baby Christians.)
• expecting and exhorting them to holiness, love and sacrifice.
• baptizing them earlier than we do (generally).
• preparing them for persecution.
• teaching them the sermon on the mount as the normative goal for their behavior.

  

• cultivate in them a shema-lifestyle – loving God with all their heart, mind soul and strength and their neighbors as ourselves.
• expecting them to fall and lovingly stand with them when they did.
• always pointing them to the cross not their failures.

Now, what would you add?