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Commentary on "Discipleship"
Day 7: Friday, June 5, 2009
The final day of the lesson suggests a reading from Ellen G. White. The SDA Church has prided itself on not following tradition. May we suggest that you not follow the tradition of reading Ellen White, but reading the Bible.
A Prescription For You
As an extra exercise, get a copy of a translation that you are not familiar with, but is recognized as a good or reasonable translation (not a paraphrase.) Using a concordance, look up every occurrence of the word disciple as it occurs in the New Testament. Don't only read the verse in which the word ocurs, read the whole chapter. Then, read the whole book. Then read the whole New Testament. (Of course, this may take you longer than a week, but that is OK if you are a disciple of Jesus!)
Then repeat that daily for the next month, and then as often as necessary.
A true disciple of Jesus will get to the point, and sometimes fairly quickly, when one no longer has to point to the ministry of death engraved on stones (yes, engraved by the finger of God, but a ministry of death, nonetheless) but can simply point fellow beggars to the Bread and Water of Life.
May you be a true disciple of Jesus, and not a disciple of Moses.
*All scripture quotations are from: The Holy Bible: English Standard Version. 2001, Wheaton: Standard Bible Society.
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