Ee need to shift from individual to community. The gospel we communicate today is a very individualistic “me and Jesus” kind of gospel. It’s just that transaction that takes place between God and myself and as if that happens just internally within our own heart. Whereas the message of the gospel really is about a new community. God is birthing a new people, and we become a part of that new community. So we’re saved not only individually before God, [but] we’re saved into a people of God. And that new community is to reflect the life of God among us. Greg Ogden, ED101 Introducing Discipleship, Logos Mobile Education (Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2014). 21 Laws of Discipleship -- the book -- |