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    Stop Practicing Discipleship and Start Being Disciples
    Stop Practicing Discipleship and Start Being Disciples
    Stop Practicing Discipleship and Start Being Disciples
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    Stop Practicing Discipleship and Start Being Disciples

    By J. William Feffer

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    Too many of us miss the life promised by Jesus because we believe being a Christian is a matter of belief, not an active life of intimate connection to God. Being Disciples invites readers to rethink how they follow Jesus, to stop practicing discipleship and start being disciples. It reframes the spiritual disciplines. No longer will they be a list of spiritual "to-dos." They are essential practices that cultivate a deeper connection with Jesus, so we can be transformed into the people he created us to be and live the abundant lives he created us to live. Being Disciples is a part of beingdisciples.com, a website of practical resources to help engage the spiritual disciplines as a disciple.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateJul 1, 2015
    ISBN9781483556178
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      Stop Practicing Discipleship and Start Being Disciples - J. William Feffer

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      You keep using that word. I don’t think it means what you think it means.

      It is possible this is nothing more than a collegiate urban legend, but I once heard a story about the Wheaton College Women’s Chorale and a minor wardrobe snafu. It is an annual tradition at Wheaton for groups to wear t-shirts or sweatshirts as a sign of belonging. One particular year the ladies of the Women’s Chorale designed their shirts as a play on their common initials with the college. The shirt displayed a large WC with a reference to both Wheaton College and the Women’s Chorale in smaller letters. It was also the year they had a plan to tour Europe.

      At a couple stops on the tour, they decided to wear their shirts, emblazoned with a large WC, instead of their usual gowns, and the ladies of the Women’s Chorale quickly discovered their European audiences didn’t think the design was quite so clever. You see in Europe, a restroom is called a water closet, and signs marking their location have the abbreviated WC. There’s nothing like singing the Hallelujah chorus while wearing a shirt that might as well say toilet.

      Of course, cross-cultural communication blunders are not new. Poor translation led Schweppes Tonic Water to promote Schweppes Toilet Water in Italy. Sales of the Chevy Nova suffered in South America until GM realized Nova, in Spanish, means It won’t go, and the Got Milk? campaign asked an unintended and rather personal question in Mexico: Are you lactating?

      We experience similar failures of communication in everyday life as words become a part of our vernacular and get used so often we lose touch with their origin and meaning. Has anyone ever told you something literally happened that is literally impossible? Trust me. This is literally going to blow your mind. (I hope not.)

      I work in the corporate world, so I regularly hear people extol the virtues of collaboration. We comment on the unusually high amount of churn or swirl on a project, and we talk about high performing teams. When we start using these phrases, their meaning is clear. Then we use them so often and removed from their original context that the meaning becomes foggy.

      We’re not immune to this in church. There are words and phrases we frequently use that have varied meanings. They are important words. In most cases our definitions are not wrong, but when we use them without clarity, we slowly erode the values and practices they

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