Discipleship

"...unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it can only be a single seed. But if it dies, it bears much fruit."
                                                       ---John 12:24

This week on the blog we will be talking about discipleship. We’ll begin by looking at discipleship a little more broadly, leading up to this question: What does it mean that in Jesus, the Creator steps fully into creation? Then, we’re going to look at discipleship in three inter-related ways. That is, we’ll look at what it means for us that Jesus says “follow me,” what it means to be spiritually aware, and what it means to be obedient.

To get us started, here is a description the German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer (who was executed in 1945 for entering a plot to bring down Hitler) gives of the disciple:

The disciple is thrown out of the relative security of life into complete insecurity (which in truth is absolute security and protection in community with Jesus); out of the foreseeable and calculable realm (which in truth is unreliable) into the completely unforeseeable, coincidental realm (which in truth is the only necessary and reliable one); out of the realm of limited possibilities (which in truth is that of unlimited possibilities) into the realm of unlimited possibilities (which in truth is the only liberating reality).

              -Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Discipleship, p. 58

 

~ Chris Agoranos