Welcome! We trust you’re excited to be embarking on this journey where we are committed to establishing a culture of Discipleship at LIFE that reaches into every sphere of what we do and why we do it. Culture change always starts with the individual, so we hope you are personally excited and challenged to be delving into this devotional that we know will bring you closer to Jesus. We invite you to treat this devotional as an opportunity to not just read and pray about the content, but to also WRESTLE with the conversation presented.
Ps Scott has coined this brilliant phrase: ‘If I TELL you something you HOLD it, if you WRESTLE with something you OWN it.’
We all need space to WRESTLE with concepts, to feel the tension of differing viewpoints and to persevere to a meaningful conclusion. So, we encourage you to think deeply about the content discussed each day and take the initiative to discuss it with others in your world.
A disciple in its simplest definition is someone who ‘follows’ or a ‘learner’, so in the context of Christianity a disciple can be defined as a person who is committed to organise their life around the following:
Be with Jesus, Become like Jesus, Do what Jesus did.
Simple right! However, to live this way requires a life-long commitment to a radical transformation from the inside out. It’s important that as we embark on this journey of establishing a Discipleship culture that you take a moment right now to pause and ask yourself if the way you’re living reflects the Biblical model of living life to the full? Has spiritual transformation taken place in your life in the last 12 months, or do you feel like you’ve reached a plateau?
As you pause you may find yourself then asking if a lifestyle of deep engagement with Jesus and His practices possible in this chaotic, information charged society we live in? Yes, it is, through the ‘wrestle’, teaching, conversation within your ‘community’ and the Holy Spirit we can all design a fresh way to live as a follower of Jesus.