Discipleship, quite simply, is walking with God, truly loving and learning from him; every moment, every day, in every circumstance. When we realize we’ve drifted away from him, we turn back, because with him is the only safe place. But sometimes, activity can feel like intimacy, and others’ expectations of our service and devotion can quietly move onto the throne. Bible study, ministry and fellowship are indicators and instruments of discipleship, but as substitutes for it, they eventually disintegrate into lifeless and destructive compulsion and idolatry.
Posts Tagged ‘idolatry’
What Is Discipleship?
Posted in Thought for the Week, tagged Bible, compulsion, discipleship, drifting, expectations, faith, God, idolatry, intimacy, jesus, learning, love, ministry, prayer on December 2, 2023| Leave a Comment »
Locked Doors
Posted in Thought for the Week, tagged faith, fear, idolatry, impure, jesus, life, pain, shame, sin on April 13, 2023| Leave a Comment »
Each of us seems to have painful, messy, fearful and impure parts of our life into which we have not yet invited Jesus; unsightly rooms we make sure to keep closed and locked. I don’t want him to see and be disappointed. But could those also be the places/activities/thoughts where I am still hoping to find life apart from him?
Novus (New) Vir (Man) 