{"id":549,"date":"2015-04-01T01:00:09","date_gmt":"2015-04-01T06:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bayviewumc.org\/wordpress\/?p=549"},"modified":"2015-03-31T11:13:30","modified_gmt":"2015-03-31T16:13:30","slug":"demystifying-discipleship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bayviewumc.org\/wordpress\/demystifying-discipleship\/","title":{"rendered":"Demystifying Discipleship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes in religious circles we talk about a word without fully understanding its implications. We can also throw out \u201cchurchy\u201d words or concepts that turn off newcomers. Just think about the times that you have been in a work or social situation and it\u2019s assumed that you know all the jargon but you feel lost. I wanted part of my growth as a pastor to be leading a class that understood <!--more-->discipleship more fully. We did this by reflecting on TED Talks that featured lecturers across a variety of disciplines. As we come out of Lent I want to take some time to reflect on what we learned about being a disciple of Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Little moments can be huge acts of discipleship. We may not know how a small act of kindness means the world to another person.<\/li>\n<li>Disciples today and in the Bible all experienced doubt.\u00a0 It\u2019s normal!<\/li>\n<li>It takes resiliency and a strong community or team to engage in discipleship together<\/li>\n<li>Compassion and caring deeply for our neighbors is intricately woven into discipleship<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you are interested in materials from our Bible study or would like links to the TED talks that we watched email me at pastoreddie@bayviewumc.org. One other neat way to demystify \u201cchurchy\u201d terms and other questions is through a YouTube series called \u201cChuck Knows Church\u201d. They are short videos that take a fun, somewhat quirky, look at a variety of church-related topics. They\u2019re a fun way to make church more accessible. So as plants keep popping up and we begin to enter a new season, broaden your sense of what it means to be a disciple of Christ and walk in the way that he leads.<\/p>\n<p><b><i> Pastor Eddie<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes in religious circles we talk about a word without fully understanding its implications. We can also throw out \u201cchurchy\u201d&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[423],"tags":[511,445],"class_list":["post-549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pastoreddie","tag-demystifying-discipleship","tag-pastor-eddie"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bayviewumc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bayviewumc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bayviewumc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bayviewumc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bayviewumc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bayviewumc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bayviewumc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bayviewumc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bayviewumc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}