What if: Discipleship and methodology
What if methodology kills authenticity?
What if a set plan, a law of letter, kills the spirit of authenticity?
What if a set pattern builds trust in a plan and not a person?
What if you cannot serve two masters, the static plan/understanding or the dynamic often enigmatic Lord?
What if an undue focus on the correct "form" of a packaged discipleship system is more like saying the right words in the right way to get something we want to happen...which is more like witchcraft than Christianity?
What if discipleship is like the wind, because it is energized and guided by the Spirit; who knows where it will go and where it has come from?
What if our methods just energize self-effort, but our trust/faith allows for God to work through us for another?
What if we are not and never are good enough to lay down our lives, but by faith in Christ, Who is the righteousness of God, He does so through us?
What if the packaging of discipleship means you have a package of nothing?
What if God cannot be boxed, and His workings in relationships cannot be boxed in either?
What if God cannot be boxed in by space, time, matter, energy, or even our understanding, desires, or imaginations?
What if packaging discipleship is an attempt to walk NOT by faith, but by human understanding and by self-produced and illusory certainty?
What if a set forth package quenches seeking, knocking, and asking?
What if a set forth discipleship methodology package is a substitute for the reality of a journey with Christ that one gets from seeking, knocking, and asking that an authentic relationship with Him will naturally bring?
What if a set plan, a law of letter, kills the spirit of authenticity?
What if a set pattern builds trust in a plan and not a person?
What if you cannot serve two masters, the static plan/understanding or the dynamic often enigmatic Lord?
What if an undue focus on the correct "form" of a packaged discipleship system is more like saying the right words in the right way to get something we want to happen...which is more like witchcraft than Christianity?
What if discipleship is like the wind, because it is energized and guided by the Spirit; who knows where it will go and where it has come from?
What if our methods just energize self-effort, but our trust/faith allows for God to work through us for another?
What if we are not and never are good enough to lay down our lives, but by faith in Christ, Who is the righteousness of God, He does so through us?
What if the packaging of discipleship means you have a package of nothing?
What if God cannot be boxed, and His workings in relationships cannot be boxed in either?
What if God cannot be boxed in by space, time, matter, energy, or even our understanding, desires, or imaginations?
What if packaging discipleship is an attempt to walk NOT by faith, but by human understanding and by self-produced and illusory certainty?
What if a set forth package quenches seeking, knocking, and asking?
What if a set forth discipleship methodology package is a substitute for the reality of a journey with Christ that one gets from seeking, knocking, and asking that an authentic relationship with Him will naturally bring?
posted by GBT at
Monday, July 04, 2005
