School of Discipleship - Introduction
This represents the first series I am going to attempt for this journal. The series is on the School of Discipleship conference I went to last weekend. I guess this means the first question I should answer is “What is the School of Discipleship?”
The School of Discipleship (SoD) is an annual event in Canberra. To quote shamelessly from the website (www.schoolofdiscipleship.org.au):
“The school is exactly what it says it is, a 'school' where we come to work on what it is to live the Christian life. The truth is that a follower of Jesus can only authentically obey if they are biblically grounded and theologically informed. Our conviction is that the church today stands in constant need of renewed worship and testimony- a determined struggle to seek faith with understanding.
“The School of Discipleship is a place of re-conceiving what it means to follow Jesus. It is a passage of grace, a time of re-orientation, a place where each of us gather for reflection and renewal in order to be exposed to the love and commands of the Triune God.”
Now, that is all well and good, but it doesn’t go very far into explaining why I personally go to SoD. The reason I go is primarily because it is a time for me to undergo a Spiritual Renewal. By that I mean it is a time for me to stop, step out of the chaos of my daily life. To simply take the time of think, relax and assess where my life is at.
Questions that I ask myself when assessing where my life is at are ones such as “Where and what are my priorities?”, “In what ways can I change my life for the better?” and “what ways can I bring my faith and beliefs into greater harmony with how I live my life?”
I may come back to these questions in future posts on SoD but not in any great detail I expect. As I have said here before, one of my key convictions is that we as people learn more in the asking and exploring of a question than in the answer at the end. What this means is that whilst an answer may be important, it is meaningless without the journey to get there. I hope you can receive something out of this journey too.
The School of Discipleship (SoD) is an annual event in Canberra. To quote shamelessly from the website (www.schoolofdiscipleship.org.au):
“The school is exactly what it says it is, a 'school' where we come to work on what it is to live the Christian life. The truth is that a follower of Jesus can only authentically obey if they are biblically grounded and theologically informed. Our conviction is that the church today stands in constant need of renewed worship and testimony- a determined struggle to seek faith with understanding.
“The School of Discipleship is a place of re-conceiving what it means to follow Jesus. It is a passage of grace, a time of re-orientation, a place where each of us gather for reflection and renewal in order to be exposed to the love and commands of the Triune God.”
Now, that is all well and good, but it doesn’t go very far into explaining why I personally go to SoD. The reason I go is primarily because it is a time for me to undergo a Spiritual Renewal. By that I mean it is a time for me to stop, step out of the chaos of my daily life. To simply take the time of think, relax and assess where my life is at.
Questions that I ask myself when assessing where my life is at are ones such as “Where and what are my priorities?”, “In what ways can I change my life for the better?” and “what ways can I bring my faith and beliefs into greater harmony with how I live my life?”
I may come back to these questions in future posts on SoD but not in any great detail I expect. As I have said here before, one of my key convictions is that we as people learn more in the asking and exploring of a question than in the answer at the end. What this means is that whilst an answer may be important, it is meaningless without the journey to get there. I hope you can receive something out of this journey too.