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Apprenticeship with Jesus: Learning to Live Like the Master is unavailable, but you can change that!

Ask a crowd of Christians whether they believe in Jesus as Lord and Savior, and all hands will go up. Ask the same crowd whether they live like Jesus, and most of those same hands will come down. Why is this? Why is it so hard to bridge the gap between belief and real life? Respected author, professor, and psychologist Gary W. Moon thinks it has to do with our hyper-intellectual but...

in the shop or the house of their master, share meals with a “surrogate family,” and spend the daylight hours working by the side of an expert craftsman. Until trust was established, a frightening part of the apprentice’s new existence was his total dependence on the one he barely knew but was seeking to imitate, to become. Apprentices learned their new trade, their new way of living, by mirroring their master. And it is interesting that this plan for gradually learning a craft through experience and