discipleship

Who needs the church?

Business guru Peter Drucker used to advise every organisation to ask itself, “What business are we in?” So what exactly is the business of the church? Are we in the religion business? The business of teaching “values”? The business of adding a spiritual dimension to life? The business of promoting justice? In these days of church decline, we had …

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What on earth is discipleship?

As we are apprenticed, we ourselves are changed into the people God always dreamed we could become, and we contribute our small bit to the mosaic that is the Kingdom—and that brings joy. Frankly, is anything else worthwhile?

Making Disciples Today

Making Disciples Today“Discipleship” is something of a buzz word in churches these days. But what does it actually mean? And why is it important? How does it relate to spiritual growth? Is it the same as spiritual formation or something different? Is it just “the flavour of the month,” like so many, here today and …

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Christian Spirituality: Part II DISTINCTIVES OF CHRISTIAN SPIRITUALITY

This is a continuation of http://institute.wycliffecollege.ca/?p=112 The first part of this article was about in-house distinctions of spirituality: what are the different branches of the Christian tree, if you like. In this second part, I want to think about—well, I guess the opposite of in-house is out-house—what distinguishes Christian spirituality, this Christian tree (whichever of the …

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