"Christianity without the living Christ is inevitably Christianity without discipleship, and Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ." - Dietrich Bonhoeffer
And dare we say that Christianity, true faith must include; Christ and discipleship and anything less is not Christianity at all. In our submission to Christ there are no options....it is his way or the highway.
Matthew 4:19, 10:38, 16:24 Mark 8:34, 10:21 Luke 5:27-28, 9:57-62 John 10:27, 12:26
These are just a few scriptures that speak of our call to discipleship and our call to Christ. Mr. Bonhoeffer had it right, do we? do you? do I?
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Sorry, Ed. I can only answer one of those questions at the end of your post. I will comment, however, though perhaps we are preaching to the choir, I love this quote from Bishop Lesslie Newbigin (Missionary to India):
"I suddenly saw that … someone could use all the language of evangelical Christianity, and yet the center was fundamentally the self, my need of salvation. And God is auxiliary to that..." (the rest of the quote can be found here: http://southwickblog.blogspot.com/2007/11/what-do-you-think.html).
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