Month: November 2015

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Christian education Discipleship Spiritual formation

“Are discipleship and spiritual formation different?”

"Are discipleship and spiritual formation different?" 

This might be a bit of an oversimplification but basically but: "No! Discipleship has roots in Gospels and Spiritual Formation in Pauline literature."

(I also think education is another way of talking about these things to some extent. I talk about these things more in my opening lecture for my Discipleship in Community course).

 

  1. Is there a difference between discipleship and spiritual formation or are they one and the same? If different, how would you define them?

     
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    @jr_briggs No, the same. But different NT origins: discipleship (Gospels) vs. Spiritual Formation (Pauline). Also Christian education.

     
     
     
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Email Humor

Massive multiplayer online game called “email.”

Great line here:

 

 

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My time has been completely overtaken by this massively multiplayer online game called “email.”

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Human agency Humor

The Acts of the Holy Spirit (and the slow Apostles)

I often say the book of Acts is not the "Acts of the Apostles" unless you throw in some sort of insult about the apostles in there. It is the "Acts of the Holy Spirit (and the rather-slow-to-get-it Apostles)." I'm thinking especially of Acts 10-11. Nicole is correct about the Gospels as well. God does want to use people. It is God's idea! But it is good for us to remember we are the ones being led and to have a sense of humor about ourselves. 

 

 Andy Rowell Retweeted

It is of profound spiritual comfort to me that the 12 disciples were all randos who spent 75% of their time asking Jesus dumb questions.

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