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Scattered Around or Handed Down

Today’s post fromRegi Campbellbegins the final week of the blog seriesDiscipleship: Re-Imagining Our Calling From Christ. To receive future posts from theseries in your inbox headHERE. Engage with the writers and community of readers using the hashtag#DiscipleshipBlog.

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Jesus was one smart man. He was dropped into history with one job to do. Be conceived & live sinlessly. Then be killed as a sacrifice. That’s it. If he’d simply died in our place….just paid the debt for our sin, he’d have been...

Building a Platform, or Making Digital Disciples?

Today’s post from Stephanie Smithis part of the blog seriesDiscipleship: Re-Imagining Our Calling From Christ. To receive future posts from theseries in your inbox headHERE. Engage with the writers and community of readers using the hashtag#DiscipleshipBlog.

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There are two ways Christians talk about following.

One is an ancient call, as ancient as it is simple: “Follow me,” and, “Make disciples of all nations.”

The other is a modern imperative, riding the waves of the advent of social media: “Ho...

The Hidden Heroes of Discipleship

Today’s post fromStephen Boutryis part of the blog seriesDiscipleship: Re-Imagining Our Calling From Christ. To receive future posts from theseries in your inbox headHERE. Engage with the writers and community of readers using the hashtag#DiscipleshipBlog.

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Recently our SojournBoston staff team traveled across the river into Cambridge to visit MIT’s Museum.

The first exhibit encountered upon entering features MIT’s work with Artificial Intelligence (AI). You see robotic arms learning tasks, watch...

Breaking Down The Great Commission

Today’s post fromAnson Sextonis part of the blog seriesDiscipleship: Re-Imagining Our Calling From Christ. To receive future posts from theseries in your inbox headHERE. Engage with the writers and community of readers using the hashtag#DiscipleshipBlog.

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Jesus came and told his disciples, “I have been given all authority in heaven and on earth. Therefore, go and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Teach these new discipl...

A Vision for Discipleship

Today’s post from Chris Nye is part of the blog seriesDiscipleship: Re-Imagining Our Calling From Christ. To receive future posts from theseries in your inbox headHERE. Engage with the writers and community of readers using the hashtag#DiscipleshipBlog.

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The greatest privilege in all of human life is to teach another person how to live like Jesus. Additionally, it could be argued that to instruct another in Jesus’ ways is the mostimportantact to accomplish.

Our country and world is a collection...

How Much Must I Give of Myself?

Today’s post from C.S. Lewisis part of the blog seriesDiscipleship: Re-Imagining Our Calling From Christ. To receive future posts from theseries in your inbox headHERE. Engage with the writers and community of readers using the hashtag#DiscipleshipBlog.

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The ordinary idea which we all have before we become Christians is this. We take as the starting point our ordinary self with its various desires and interests. We then admit that something else—call it “morality” or “decent behavior,” or “the...

Intentional Discipleship

Today’s post fromRenee Fisheris part of the blog seriesDiscipleship: Re-Imagining Our Calling From Christ. To receive future posts from theseries in your inbox headHERE. Engage with the writers and community of readers using the hashtag#DiscipleshipBlog.

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When I think of the word discipleship I think of other churchy words like Sunday School, Bible study, church, and mentors.

So many churches have programs for this and meetings for this and for that. Yet there are so many areas the church is la...

Discipleship in the Life Advice Age

Today’s post fromJeff Pattersonis part of the blog seriesDiscipleship: Re-Imagining Our Calling From Christ. To receive future posts from theseries in your inbox headHERE. Engage with the writers and community of readers using the hashtag#DiscipleshipBlog.

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Plant your hope with good seeds.

—Mumford & Sons, “Thistles & Weeds”

Life advice is the currency of our culture. Everywhere we go, someone is selling a better take on life, a better way to be awesome.

Recently I asked our little church plant t...

What is Discipleship?

Today’s post is part of the blog seriesDiscipleship: Re-Imagining Our Calling From Christ. To receive future posts from theseries in your inbox headHERE. Engage with the writers and community of readers using the hashtag#DiscipleshipBlog.

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When I went about organizing this blog seriesthisquestion was at the forefront of my mind: what is discipleship? It’s a mostly foreign within Christianity today. It’s been co-opted for ministry program formats, mentoring relationships (which I believe play a...

Disciple is a Verb? 3 Insights for Clueless Folks Like Me

Today’s post fromKari Pattersonis part of the blog seriesDiscipleship: Re-Imagining Our Calling From Christ. To receive future posts from theseries in your inbox headHERE. Engage with the writers and community of readers using the hashtag#DiscipleshipBlog.

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I was 18 when I first heard “disciple” used as a verb.

It baffled me at first, but I quickly determined to get with the times and find someone to “disciple” me. I picked a godly woman and penned the following letter:

Dear Elisa,

Iheard about t...