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Reflecting on the practice of disciple making in young adult, college, graduate, and local church contexts, Jonathan Dodson has discerned some common pitfalls. For many, discipleship is reduced to a form of religious performance before God. For others, it devolves into spiritual license and a loose adherence to spiritual facts. Both approaches distort biblical motivations for Christian obedience...

to make something out of himself—a saint, or converted sinner, or a churchman, a righteous or unrighteous man, … when in the fullness of tasks, questions, success or ill-hap, experiences and perplexities, a man throws himself into the arms of God … then he wakes with Christ.”11 We need to put performance and rebellion to sleep so that we can wake up to Jesus. The gospel promises us the arms of God’s loving embrace every single minute of every single day, provided we give up on ourselves. When we
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