Word: discipleships
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...calls us into his Church to accept the cost and joy of discipleship, to be his servants in the service of men, to proclaim the Gospel to all the world and resist the powers of evil, to share in Christ's baptism and eat at his table, to join him in his passion and victory...
...goal of education is incomplete. It is as follows: 'If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free' [John 8:31-32) . . . Divested of its other implications, the clause referring to discipleship suggests that a commitment is involved if one would find the truth. Commitment to certain basic assumptions is a necessary starting point in the quest for truth...
...have not seen deeply enough the real needs and situations of men; we have not demonstrated the distinctive character of Christian discipleship. To the degree that we have failed, the world has dismissed us and our faith with a shrug. We are passed by as irrelevant people, pleasant and well-meaning, whose God is optional, whose faith has no bearing, one way or the other, on the ... structure and meaning of life...
...truly believe in God in Christ, then worship becomes no conventional act of outward respectability, but the very bread of life. . . . If we truly believe, then brotherhood becomes more than a slogan. ... If we really believe, then Christian discipleship, the mission of the church, are not inconsequential asides or the task of peculiar people. They are the absorbing responsibility and opportunity of every member of the church...
...best, a jazz novel can only favorably dispose the unenlightened reader toward hot music. To learn to appreciate it, one must hear it, and under proper circumstances. The commonest method, of course, is to spend a year of discipleship under a Glenn Miller until the realization dawns that the acme of musical perfection in the four-beat tempo is hardly a deliciously impeccable saxophone section. But potentially there are other ways of putting jazz in a more satisfactory light with the general public, particularly through the medium of the theatre and the screen...