Simple, Short, Should Be Required Reading

Christianity Today online posted an interview with Dallas Willard and Richard Foster on the differences between "Spiritual Formation" and "Discipleship."  It is called "The Making of a Christian."  It should be required reading for everyone serious about being and making followers of Christ for the Kingdom of heaven.   

I know it will be required reading for my staff. 

Here is just one snippet from Dallas Willard:

"Discipleship as a term has lost its content, and this is one reason why it has been moved aside. I've tried to redeem the idea of discipleship, and I think it can be done; you have to get it out of the contemporary mode.

There are really three gospels that are heard in our society. One is forgiveness of sins. Another is being faithful to your church: If you take care of your church, it will take care of you. Sometimes it's called discipleship, but it's really churchmanship. And another gospel is the social one—Jesus is in favor of liberation, and we should be devoted to that. All of those contain important elements of truth. You can't dismiss any of them. But to make them central and say that's what discipleship is just robs discipleship of its connection with transformation of character."

Comments

[junior]

I came to your page by way of Rawson Street.
http://rawsonstreet.blogspot.com/2005/09/random-pickings.html
Hope you don't mind if I quote/link.
http://epangelical.blogspot.com/2005/09/calling-christians-to-follow-christ.html

Thanks!

[Carol]

Three gospels? I thought there was but one and I don't see it listed in Mr. Willard's quote. Just how many gospels are being preached out there anyway?

[Richard]

Dallas Willard's Divine Conspiracy should be required reading for Christ-followers.

Cheers.

[Verlch]

Lets not forget our war on Progressive Liberals!!!

They look like they are making war on a marriage between a man and woman. With 2 out of 3 ending in divorce they appear to be winnign that front.

Not to mention that they have done this, Feminists have promoted the killing of 1/3 of every human being under 34! In the name of career advancement.

So with 50 million abortions under their belt they now can promote every type of behavior that is set squarly against the bible. These people have become heterophobs, with no end in sight. Its time true freedom loving liberals, conservitives all banded together to stop an evil to all of our happiness!!!

They aver that the patriarchal family is a prison for the mother; but the mother is far more restricted, impoverished and miserable in a female-headed family, with reduced income and no partner to share responsibilities with.--Garbage Generation aka: http://www.mugu.com

http://www.mugu.com/cgi-bin/Upstream/Library/Amneus/garbage/index.html

Our true enemy of women, children and men is that of Progressive liberal Feminism. They are a group set on the destruction of the human family, so they can do liberal sins as they please, without having to do them in secrect or of reproof from bible believing Christians. Until they, they powers that be, drive a stake in our brains we need to stand for what those men in the bible bore witness to, the will of God.

Feminism is Anti-Order, 50 million abortions speaks loudly to their demise. They give women permission to give men sexual relations outside of marriage, then oopss, we shouldn't dampen that sexual liberal stuff so just have an abortion and keep on trucking. Meanwhile these abortionists make millions of the death of the unborn. The unborn that if they could speak to you from the womb would choose life, and most certainly not death! A child is a gift from God, not something that evolved to cause you misery.

Let us remind women that being a traditional mother places her on a pedestal, and she shouldn't bring herself down to the leval of equality with men. Why? When she has the status of special priviledge? Just for being a lady!

As early as 1972, Phyllis Schlafly posed this question: “The claim that American women are downtrodden and unfairly treated is the fraud of the century…Why should we lower ourselves to ‘equal rights’ when we already have the status of special privilege?” That editorial launched the movement that eventually defeated the Equal Rights Amendment.

"Women's liberation, if it abolishes the patriarchal family, will abolish a necessary substructure of the authoritarian state, and once that withers away Marx will have come true willy-nilly, so let's get on with it." --Germaine Greer (b. 1939), Australian feminist writer. The Female Eunuch, "Revolution" (1970).