What is church for? Sunday gathering versus Monday discipleship
- What is the purpose of the weekly church gathering?
- What should discipleship look like on Monday when there is no Sunday gathering to mirror?
The hosts work through basic discipleship: the Sunday gathering exists for community, teaching, Sabbath rest, and celebrating salvation, a pattern God set out. The harder question is what a disciple looks like on Monday with no one to mirror, illustrated by the image of an 85-year-old's prayer divots by his bed. They argue that if Monday holds no prayer, Bible reading, or openness to the Holy Spirit, attendance has produced a churchgoer, not a disciple. The 'red solo cup' metaphor follows: you cannot stretch one Sunday fill-up across the week, but you have the well at home. A host notes their teachers Dan and Ben by name in discussing how God leads a community.
More on Discipleship
-
Should following Jesus feel more comfortable as time goes on?
- Should following Jesus feel more comfortable as time goes on?
A host asks whether following Jesus should feel more comfortable as time goes on — noting the low-level tension many feel around am-I-doing-enough and the stigma that contentment equals laziness.
-
Confetti and lasers: what should God's people be known for?
- Do we want to be known as the confetti and lasers people?
- What should God's people be known for?
Ben redirects to the docket's denomination question: when someone hears Silas's church described as 'the confetti and lasers people,' should that sting?
From No. 598 · Emphasis | Accountability, Worship and Praying with Strangers
-
Recovery ministries, charismatic experience, and sustainable faith
- Can recovery ministries replace a chemical high with a spiritual high, and is that sustainable?
A long pastoral discussion starting from recovery ministries, which tend to come from charismatic backgrounds: the risk of trading a chemical high for event-driven spiritual highs.
From No. 555 · The Aslan Wears Prada
-
What does it mean to make disciples
- What does it mean to make disciples — is it just giving information, or does it involve accountability and structure?
The hosts take up the third topic: two extremes of disciple-making. On one side, being only an information provider and leaving everything to the Spirit; on the other, running…
From No. 545 · By Invitation Only