The Shape of Discipleship

It is Palm Sunday. Carol Cavin-Dillion gives the Children's Moment. Our guest preacher is Rev. Dr. Autura Eason-Williams, District Superintendent of the Metro District in Memphis. She explores the question, how do we live into the image and likeness of Christ? Growing up in the church we learned to act as Jesus acted. Twenty years ago there was that movement, “What Would Jesus Do?” The difference between those who do such things to check them off and those who do them out of love is relationship. Sometimes we like to serve, but it’s hard for us to hear their voices, to be changed by them. Dr. Eason-Williams uses the example of Saul of Tarsus who was approached by Jesus on the road to Damascus and was changed completely. Paul was, of course, perhaps the most significant and influential early Christian, and in the letter to the Philippians (2.5-11) described the way Jesus emptied himself as our example. She gives a real-life example of that kind of change.