two voices in harmony
Came across a cool review of a morning discussion that Zondervan put on with Brian McLaren and Rob Bell. These are two great authors, thinkers, and pastors and the review of the morning is nicely put together.
Being a pastor, I enjoyed this account of something McLaren shared:
I think Dallas Willard and Richard Foster have done an incredible job of bringing back to our attention that “converts and disciples are not the same thing.” Making disciples is not accidental but the main focus of our work. Maybe it’s time to ask your board of elders, “How can my job be adjusted in the next several years so that my primary job is to model Jesus Christ instead of lead a religious organization?”
good stuff -
-s.o
Being a pastor, I enjoyed this account of something McLaren shared:
I think Dallas Willard and Richard Foster have done an incredible job of bringing back to our attention that “converts and disciples are not the same thing.” Making disciples is not accidental but the main focus of our work. Maybe it’s time to ask your board of elders, “How can my job be adjusted in the next several years so that my primary job is to model Jesus Christ instead of lead a religious organization?”
good stuff -
-s.o
posted by s.o at 9:25 PM |
1 Comments:
Thanks for sharing this. I admire both men. I really appreciate McLaren's comment about the dif between making a convert and a disciple. And also, his comment about modeling Christ. It reminds me of when Juan Carlos Ortiz invited 12 men to live with him for month. He felt that it was an important lesson for him to learn what it meant to model Christ. He also took a 6-month sabbatical to work in a factory because he felt that he was out of touch with his parishoners. Pretty radical stuff for an evangelical in the 1970s.
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