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Session Description
To start with the Biblical basis of discipleship. Discipleship was Jesus's method of reaching the world with the good news of the kingdom of God. What's important to understand about that is that, as always, God was reaching out to the world in an incarnational way. Jesus, of course, was the incarnance of God, but how he operated was also incarnational. It had to do with the world in which he lived. In the world of Second Temple Judaism, this relationship of Rabbi and disciple was the ordinary way in which deep religious teaching was done. There were a number of Rabbis with differing points of view on the Scripture, and they gathered disciples around them.
Conference Title
2008 Calvin Symposium on Worship
Event Date
1-25-2008
Event Type
Workshop/Seminar
Type (recording/text)
Recording
Topic
Spiritual Formation/Discipleship
Keywords:
discipleship, adult discipleship, incarnational
Recommended Citation
VanderZee, Leonard, "The Crisis of Adult Discipleship" (2008). Symposium on Worship Archive. 53.
https://digitalcommons.calvin.edu/uni-cicw-symposium/2008/allitems/53
The Crisis of Adult Discipleship
To start with the Biblical basis of discipleship. Discipleship was Jesus's method of reaching the world with the good news of the kingdom of God. What's important to understand about that is that, as always, God was reaching out to the world in an incarnational way. Jesus, of course, was the incarnance of God, but how he operated was also incarnational. It had to do with the world in which he lived. In the world of Second Temple Judaism, this relationship of Rabbi and disciple was the ordinary way in which deep religious teaching was done. There were a number of Rabbis with differing points of view on the Scripture, and they gathered disciples around them.