Steven Jobs and Discipleship

Sunday evening I was watching a documentary on Steven Jobs called Steven Jobs:  The Man in the Machine. One of the ideas the film makers put forth was the Jobs personalized the computer.  They posit that he took computing from a dumb terminal connected to a large machine in another room to a one-user to one-computer experience.  They suggest that Jobs transitioned the computer to be more than just an extension of the user, to the point that the computer becomes the user.

I remember making the jump from working on a machine in another room to working on a Mac Plus (remember the old Mac-in-the-Box?  Yes, I'm that old). It was a lot more personal than what I had ever experienced before.

So, I got to thinking…

"What if we could make discipleship more than just an extension of the Christian?  What if we could somehow mold, for lack of a better term, discipleship into the life of the Christian?"

What if discipleship stop being something we do or attend?  What if discipleship became something we are?  I mean isn't that what Jesus calls us to?

What does discipleship mean to you?  Is it something you do, attend, or check off your weekly social calendar?  When will discipleship become personal to you?  What will it take for you to make the jump?

Something to think about for 2016.


Working on the how…

Mike

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