The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life In God

by Dallas Willard

This view of reality is precisely the situation the Christian disciple maker must address. For it is quite obvious that nothing remains of discipleship to Jesus or of Christian faith if there is no God such as he obviously lived from and had faith in, if there are only “particles and progress.” You have to be extremely well educated and very adept at deconstructive and reconstitutive thinking to believe any such discipleship remains, and perhaps not one in a million can qualify. To make disciples to Jesus today, one has to make him and his God real to them, right in the face of all that stands at the center of our world as “official” knowledge and reality. Of course what is represented by the automatic assumptions of “A Glorious Accident” is only one belief or group of beliefs obstructive to discipleship today. In every age it is one belief system or another, but a total and exclusive confidence in the natural sciences as the key to reality is the major opposing belief now.