“Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.”
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer
We all are someone else’s disciple whether we know it or not, Dallas Willard would say. Everybody has a master teacher who taught them how to live. We all learned the basics of life from someone else further down the road. When we recognize this as the case, we are free to choose someone different, someone we believe is worthy of being master.
For the individuals of our church community, we choose Jesus.
Although we all have different theological foundations and denominational histories, we all share a desire to learn how to live as Jesus lived and love as Jesus loved. Discipleship then is the process of rearranging our lives around the priorities of learning from, growing with and being transformed into the likeness of our teacher, Jesus. We take on the position of student, as posture of humility, to open ourselves up to being surprised by what we might learn or how it might change us.
“Discipleship is the process of establishing the character of Christ in the person. That’s all it is. You are taking on the character of Christ in a process of discipleship to him under the direction of the Holy Spirit and the Word of God.”
– Dallas Willard
Discipleship is life-long training for hearing, listening, and responding to the voice of God. It’s the dusty road that leads to the inner spiritual (trans)formation we first dreamt about in 2002.
We are a group of families striving to live an authentic faith free from artificial social constructs. We do not go to church, rather, we are the church. For 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, we struggle with and how to grow in this reality. We are Liquid.