{"id":1172,"date":"2008-08-25T03:28:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-25T03:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mexicomatters.org\/quotes-from-the-book-the-complete-book-of-discipleship\/"},"modified":"2014-05-19T23:55:39","modified_gmt":"2014-05-19T23:55:39","slug":"quotes-from-the-book-the-complete-book-of-discipleship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mexicomatters.org\/quotes-from-the-book-the-complete-book-of-discipleship\/","title":{"rendered":"Quotes from the book The Complete Book of Discipleship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026many evangelical churches pose an even more subtle danger by departing from the gospel that calls on all believers to be disciples and follow Christ in obedience.  As a result, we evangelicals accept and even encourage a two-level Christian experience in which only serious Christians pursue and practice discipleship, while grace and forgiveness is enough for everyone else.  Dallas Willard notes, \u201cWe have not only been saved by grace, we have been paralyzed by it.\u201d  Willard adds that the church stresses who is saved in who isn\u2019t.  However, when we see faith as agreement with a doctrinal test and understand grace as forgiveness of sin alone, we also lose vibrant Christianity.  <em>The Complete Book on Discipleship<\/em>, by Bill Hull, in Introduction<\/p>\n<p>Discipleship isn\u2019t a program or event; it\u2019s a way of life.  It\u2019s not for a limited time, but for our whole life.  Discipleship isn\u2019t for beginners alone;  it\u2019s for all believers for every day of their life.  Discipleship isn\u2019t just one of the things the church does; it is what the church does.  It\u2019s not just part of the advancement of God\u2019s kingdom; the existence of serious disciples <em>is<\/em> the most important evidence of God\u2019s work on earth.  The Complete Book on Discipleship, by Bill Hull, p. 24<\/p>\n<p>The principle behind discipleship does involve one person influencing another, which does result in a change of heart and mind.  The success of discipleship doesn\u2019t depend on soldiering forward in a mechanical strategy of reproduction and multiplication.  And discipleship doesn\u2019t involve developing a well-trained, elite sales force.  Rather discipleship occurs when a transformed person radiates Christ to hose around her.  It happens when people so deeply experience God\u2019s love that they can do nothing other than affect those around them.  <em> The Complete Book on Discipleship<\/em>, by Bill Hull, p. 28<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026many evangelical churches pose an even more subtle danger by departing from the gospel that calls on all believers to be disciples and follow Christ in obedience. As a result, we evangelicals accept and even encourage a two-level Christian experience in which only serious Christians pursue and practice discipleship, while grace and forgiveness is enough [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mexicomatters.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mexicomatters.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mexicomatters.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mexicomatters.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mexicomatters.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mexicomatters.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mexicomatters.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mexicomatters.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mexicomatters.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}