The Uncomfortable Table
When Jesus said, "Deny yourself, take up your cross, and follow Me," He was not offering a self-improvement program. He was issuing an eviction notice...
This is tradition perspectives on discipleship, drawing on Luke 9:23.
When Jesus said, "Deny yourself, take up your cross, and follow Me," He was not offering a self-improvement program. He was issuing an eviction notice from the center of our own stories. Rachel Held Evans once described the church as "a potluck where everyone brings something and nobody gets turned away." But discipleship — real discipleship — means you do not get to choose who sits next to you at that table.…
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