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Eschatological Discipleship: Leading Christians to Understand Their Historical and Cultural Context is unavailable, but you can change that!

Discipleship is eschatological in nature, because the church that makes and receives disciples is eschatological in nature. Often eschatology is thought to refer only to “last things” doctrines. However, eschatology in its broader sense encompasses the Christian view of time and the future of the world, informing both one’s evangelism and ecclesiology. Failing to relate the eschatological...

necessarily bends toward practice, as is made clear by Jesus Christ’s command to “Follow me!”3 There is a sense, then, in which true understanding of Christian doctrine has not occurred until the one who has faith has put that faith into action. If a disciple is one who follows and bears witness to Christ, then the goal of discipleship must be Christlikeness, and Christlikeness is a holistic notion including not only right belief but also right practice and right sentiment.
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