When it comes to discipleship, author John Mark Comer says it’s a bit more like jiujitsu and a bit less like learning chemistry.
This idea, Comer shares on a new episode of The Russell Moore Show, comes from authors like Mark Scandrette and Eugene Peterson. Their works explore what it looks like to follow Jesus, Comer explains, and what it means that Jesus is “the way.”
It’s not just belief in the right doctrine, he says, though it’s not less than that. It’s not just a list of rules, though commands and prohibitions are certainly part of it.
But, Comer explains, it also includes a “repertoire” of practices, disciplines, and habits that Jesus embodied—solitude, for example, or living in community with others. It’s not that we need to pit the way, the truth, and the life against each other. It’s that when we pursue God wholeheartedly, discipleship flourishes.
May we seek the way of Jesus in all aspects of our individual and communal lives, trusting that the Spirit will form us further into the image of Christ.
