Discipleship Action 5
Section 1
The reading for the Sunday services was the lengthy passage from Matthew 6: 19-34. This passage is very rich in its content and difficult in its application but the application provides an excellent overview of some core aspects of discipleship.
In the message from ‘Café Church’ there was a focus on the meaning and types of faith. There were four definitions provided. These are taken from Marcus Borg’s The Heart of Christianity:
ü Faith is holding fast to a set of beliefs with which we agree.
§ Which beliefs would be core to this understanding of faith?
ü Faith is trusting in God – what would trusting in God look like?
§ What would we be trusting God to do or be?
ü Faith is maintaining fidelity/faithfulness to God – remaining true to God
§ How do we remain true? How might we be ‘untrue’?
ü Faith as vision of what ‘really is’ (reality) – how you see the nature of life
§ How might people have different ‘visions’ of the nature of life?
Perhaps you can make a make a distinction between
1. Which of these you think is the most accurate?
2. Which of these is closest to the way you see it?
3. What difference might it make to your discipleship if you were to broaden your understanding of faith?
Section 2
- Read through the Matthew 6: 19-34. Which types of faith are evident in the passage? Work through the passage slowly and see if you can identify the four faith types. You might like to do this in pairs or triplets.
Section 1
The reading for the Sunday services was the lengthy passage from Matthew 6: 19-34. This passage is very rich in its content and difficult in its application but the application provides an excellent overview of some core aspects of discipleship.
In the message from ‘Café Church’ there was a focus on the meaning and types of faith. There were four definitions provided. These are taken from Marcus Borg’s The Heart of Christianity:
ü Faith is holding fast to a set of beliefs with which we agree.
§ Which beliefs would be core to this understanding of faith?
ü Faith is trusting in God – what would trusting in God look like?
§ What would we be trusting God to do or be?
ü Faith is maintaining fidelity/faithfulness to God – remaining true to God
§ How do we remain true? How might we be ‘untrue’?
ü Faith as vision of what ‘really is’ (reality) – how you see the nature of life
§ How might people have different ‘visions’ of the nature of life?
Perhaps you can make a make a distinction between
1. Which of these you think is the most accurate?
2. Which of these is closest to the way you see it?
3. What difference might it make to your discipleship if you were to broaden your understanding of faith?
Section 2
- Read through the Matthew 6: 19-34. Which types of faith are evident in the passage? Work through the passage slowly and see if you can identify the four faith types. You might like to do this in pairs or triplets.
Section 1
The reading for the Sunday services was the lengthy passage from Matthew 6: 19-34. This passage is very rich in its content and difficult in its application but the application provides an excellent overview of some core aspects of discipleship.
In the message from ‘Café Church’ there was a focus on the meaning and types of faith. There were four definitions provided. These are taken from Marcus Borg’s The Heart of Christianity:
ü Faith is holding fast to a set of beliefs with which we agree.
§ Which beliefs would be core to this understanding of faith?
ü Faith is trusting in God – what would trusting in God look like?
§ What would we be trusting God to do or be?
ü Faith is maintaining fidelity/faithfulness to God – remaining true to God
§ How do we remain true? How might we be ‘untrue’?
ü Faith as vision of what ‘really is’ (reality) – how you see the nature of life
§ How might people have different ‘visions’ of the nature of life?
Perhaps you can make a make a distinction between
1. Which of these you think is the most accurate?
2. Which of these is closest to the way you see it?
3. What difference might it make to your discipleship if you were to broaden your understanding of faith?
Section 2
- Read through the Matthew 6: 19-34. Which types of faith are evident in the passage? Work through the passage slowly and see if you can identify the four faith types. You might like to do this in pairs or triplets.
Tim Kelly
