This blog used to be called “On Being Disciples of Jesus,” and that still describes it. But The One Story took over a fair amount of my time and thinking, so I’ve moved the blog into the book’s website and am still posting. Here are what the blog’s front page used to look like, a tag cloud, and then a full list of posts from the first to the most recent:
being a disciple of Jesus …
… is response to a call. The call to Simon Peter and his partners in fishing (Matthew 4:19: “Follow me, and I will make you fishers for people”) is now addressed to everyone (Matthew 28:19-20).
… is departure from what has been normal (fishing for fish, for instance) to live life differently. Just how differently we know better the better we understand the departure of humankind from God into what we now consider normal. What is normal is our self-reliance and our self-determination, which, for disciples of Jesus, are replaced by trust in God and submission to his will in everything. While discipleship is a departure from what seems normal to us, it brings us into line with the real shape and destiny of the universe. It brings us, that is, into God’s actions as the now-and-coming king.
… is both received freely and learned at great expense. Jesus is our model in our submission to God’s will, in our trust of God for all our needs, in our surrender of self-rule, and in our acceptance of suffering as the way in which we learn and live out our discipleship.
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