I am becoming very fond of Dallas willard’s work. Now that I’ve finished Foster’s book I am able to focus on his new book the Great Omission. Because I hadn’t picked up this book for a while, at least not on a consistent basis, I started from the beginning so that I would be in touch with the flow of the work. One of the things I read today that really resonated with me was this passage:
“For at least several decades the churches of the Western world have not made discipleship a condition of being a Christian. One is not required to be, or to intend to be, a disciple in order to become a Christian, and one may remain a Christian without any signs of progress toward or in discipleship. Contemporary American churches in particular do not require following Christ in his example, spirit and teachings as a condition of membership – either of entering into or continuing in fellowship of a denomination or local church. So far as the visible Christian institutions of our day are concerned, discipleship is clearly optional.”
In the new little community that I have joined, I pray that we will put substance over form at the front of all that we do.
