Skye Jethani On Discipleship

Alan (Hirsch): “Are you hopeful that we can recover an authentic discipleship ethos in the church given our enculturation by consumerism?”

Skye: Yes, I am hopeful. I’m an apprentice of Jesus Christ—hope is what we bank on. As I outline in The Divine Commodity, I believe the church in North America is dreadfully imprisoned by the worldview of consumerism. But as the church continues to lose its privileged position in our culture, as outlined in the much talked about Newsweek article last week, I believe an opportunity for renewal is occurring. But this renewal will not come through massive upheaval or aggressive church initiative within the political, cultural, or commercial spheres. I believe the recovery of authentic discipleship will happen life-to-life, relationship-to-relationship, disciple-to-disciple.

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