Wednesday, August 23, 2006

Discipleship Experiment

So, My Discipleship experiment has been going on for a month now, and to my dismay the people have totally rejected the idea of accountable discipleship. I know that I said Discipleship is a choice, but I thought that at least some would choose it. Have we become so complacent in our faith that we no longer feel that being as Christ is a necessary and obtainable goal?

On a related note, I have found that when a discussion to live in Christian discipleship has been made and their is no accountable support, when written down becomes much harder to follow through on. In my last post I discussed how well my personal discipleship was going. Since I wrote it down and made my commitment permanent and asked for others to hold me accountable to that discussion I have found it almost next to impossible to follow through with when those who were asked to hold me up have not followed through on that commitment.

I still believe that accountable Christian Discipleship is a key necessary component of a healthy Christian life, but it seem to be a harder pill to swallow in today's complacent American church than I thought.