Word: discipleships
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...members of the group. Since one of the strong corollaries of the Christians' creed is the desirability of sharing their faith with others, they are most likely to be found in one or another of the University religious organizations, like a new Christian athletes group, small Bible seminars, a "discipleship" organized by the Fellowship, or in a more diverse group like the Catholic Student Center...
Openmindedness about Genesis can cause problems at Harvard. Dwight Fletcher '79, who has started a Christian athletes discipleship group with his roommate Steve Brannan '79, says he occasionally found George Wald's lectures in Nat. Sci. 5, "The Nature of Living Things," offensive. "During one of his lectures last year he said God didn't create man, but man created God. I hissed him when he said that, but then immediately I felt bad about doing...
Besides talking to their friends about Christ, Harvard Christians do a great deal of praying to ask God to show their friends the right way. They pray for non-Christians by name in small discipleship groups, and often have lists of those they are particularly concerned to help. Nelia Worsley '79 sent a letter over the summer to fellow Winthrop House Christians saying "What the Lord's been teaching me lately" is that they should be more diligent in praying for non-Christians, "silently lift up" people at meals through prayer, and make it clear through their attitudes and actions...
...made clear by such comments, his disarming idealism and fluent intelligence are equally manifest elsewhere. Whether he is describing (with unabashed pride) his efforts on behalf of Soviet dissidents or his defiance of apartheid, discoursing on acoustics, lauding Yoga and the wisdom of India with the divotion of discipleship, of opining on the different qualities of audiences around the world, one has the sense of sharing in the spontaneous conversation of an urbane and gracious friend...
Martha E. Li '75, leader of the International Friendship discipleship, agreed with Ishikawa that another international student organization should be formed, and stressed that she had no fear of rivalry between such a group and the International Friendship Group...