The Monday Morning Quarterback

I preached on discipleship in yesterday's service. I am currently reading The Great Omission by Dallas Willard as I have mentioned in previous blogs, and it dovetails in many ways with several other books by Eugene Peterson and Darryl Tippens that I have read recently as well as with another book that I just started, The Divine Embrace, by Robert E. Webber.

I am continuing to try to understand what discipleship means and incorporate it more fully in my own life. On the one hand it is so simple, on the other hand it is so elusive and hard. At its root, discipleship is about desiring and intending to be and live like Jesus. It is about having his life formed in us, no matter what our vocation is. As Willard notes in his book, "the disciple of Christ desires above all else to be like him" (7). This is a very simple sentence, but, oh, to truly put it into practice is the difficulty. The nondisciple, according to Willard, "has something 'more important' to do or undertake than to become like Jesus Christ" (7).

One of the things that I want to do periodically is to ask myself, "Do you have something more important to do than to become like Jesus?" It is a great question to ask if we are willing to answer truthfully.