The Challenges of Cultural Discipleship: Essays in the Line of Abraham Kuyper
Richard J. Mouwamazon.com
The Challenges of Cultural Discipleship: Essays in the Line of Abraham Kuyper
To be before we do, to follow the crucified—not the “Americanized”—Jesus, to embrace God’s gift of limits, to discover the treasures buried in grief and loss, to make love the core measure of maturity, to break the power of the past, and to lead out of weakness and vulnerability.
Discipleship is moving forward a step at a time, discovering the heart of Jesus, learning to enjoy the presence of God, being helped to live from the Spirit within; and being taught from Scripture what pleases the Lord.
Our sinful tendency to squeeze things together is what led Kuyper to worry about—to quote the title of another of his essays—“the blurring of the boundaries.”2 Obviously the Fall itself was a blurring of the most basic boundary. Human beings wanted to be their own gods, and in doing so were seeking to eliminate that huge gap between Creator and cre
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