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‘We Need to Do our Homework'

All Christians are disciples of Christ. If they are not this, then they are not Christians. And what is a disciple? The word simply means a ‘learner'. True disciples are also ‘teachers' of what they learn. Jesus said: Go then to all peoples and ....teach them to observe all that I have commanded you." Mt. 28:19

So disciples are teachers, but before this, they must be taught. That means discipline, work, study, and commitment. We must go to the school of Christ. And in this school there is homework. The book we are given to study is so important for the disciples of Christ that they call it ‘Holy'.

What if we don't know the book? What if we don't do our homework? A famous Presbyterian by the name of James Smart said: "I am convinced that the mounting ignorance of the contents of the Bible among members of the church, constitutes the crisis beneath all the other crises that endanger the church's future."

So then what happens? Take away the scriptures, and the church with all its members, begins to go blind, so that it becomes incapable of being redemptive salt to the contemporary world. That's what happens if we are not true disciples - learners... if we don't do our homework.

But all of us tend to be like Calvin in the comic strip - ‘Calvin and Hobbes' We all wish there were some easier way, like: ‘Hocus Pocus, Abracadabra! Homework, BE DONE!' However, whenever we seek the magic effortless way, the way that doesn't include real discipline, then we're not real disciples. And the final results of the un-disciplined way will always be the same: "Rats!"

 
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