Discipleship-Life Lived In and With Jesus

 Then God said, ‘Let us make humankind^* in our image, according to our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the wild animals of the earth,^* and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.’
²⁷ So God created humankind^* in his image, in the image of God he created them;^*
   male and female he created them.

                                                                                      -Genesis 1:26-27

In Jesus, the Creator becomes creature. In my last post I suggested that God created a world in which God’s creatures were in union with God the Creator. Jesus, the God-human, embodies this union so that our life with God might be restored.

Discipleship, then, is a life in which we become absolutely dependent upon Jesus and in which God is creating us anew in God’s image. Discipleship—life lived in and with Jesus—draws us, God’s creatures, back into communion with our Creator. 

In our attempts to be “like God,” we have sought to live independent from God and one another. Over the next few days we will be looking at discipleship in three inter-related ways. In each designation I invite you to keep in mind how God is drawing us out of our attempts to be “like God,”and, by the Spirit, into life with God through the life of discipleship.

~ Chris Agoranos