The Way of the Disciple: You Are Not a Civilian

This last Sunday we continued in our series on discipleship, exploring the idea of what it means to be unafraid sons and daughters who are able to rule in love alongside Christ for the renewal of the world. The vision statement over every human being is to rule alongside God (Gen 1v26) — to be the royal representation of God here on earth. What you believe, or who you trust, will determine whether you rule correctly. We often fail at this, but there was a man who didn’t, and He showed us how to be disciples. Jesus had to trust the Father that He would raise Him from the dead. In this Jesus defined discipleship: our job is the dying, God’s job is the raising. Paul says that we are not civilians - we say “no” to some things that others say “yes”to so we can give our big yes to God. The vision God has for the earth has become ours, so we don’t have a personal project we are building outside of His project. This is the vision of discipleship!