Isn’t this just another in a long line of novel ideas that really isn’t practical or sustainable in the end?
Despite my efforts to prove otherwise, some may persist in thinking that discipleship is some kind of strategy invoked for dealing with postmodernism. If that was the case, then it would be a fad – here today, gone tomorrow. It wouldn’t be sustainable or ultimately practical. However, my aim is Biblically faithful thought and practice, not novelty. Ecclesiastes 1:9 rightly records, “there is nothing new under the sun.” While their social influence has perhaps not been as large as it is today, many postmodern ideals have been around for a long, long time. I do not imagine that I am clever enough to come up with anything that hasn’t already been tried. However, as in many areas of theology and methodology, I do think one can look back into the Scriptures and history and rediscover truths that seem to have been forgotten. I believe this is exactly the case with discipleship. As I said in Discipleship and the Institution I am not so much concerned with modernism or postmodernism as I am si
