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Radical discipleship, pacifism, and the church as a distinct counter-cultural community.
Key question: “How does this text call the community of faith to live as a distinct, counter-cultural witness to the Kingdom?”
23,624 sermon illustrations through the Anabaptist lens
A vivid retelling of 1 Timothy 4:1-16, showing the Spirit's explicit warning about demonic doctrines of asceticism contrasted with Paul's charge to Timothy for disciplined godliness. The young pastor must train like an athlete, refuse demonic myths, and watch both life and doctrine for the sake of his own salvation and his hearers'.