Episode 32: Vision

This past weekend, Kevin kicked off our upcoming series Becoming: Apprenticeship to Jesus. Today, Kevin and Brandon talk through what that apprenticeship looks like in our modern context, and how we can allow the countercultural ways of Jesus to transform us.

 

Highlights

 

How’s the water? - 1:24

• How the things we’re unaware of shape our reality.
• Perception of the good life vs. the reality of the good life.
• Intentional and unintentional spiritual formation.

 

What it means to follow - 17:45

• Jesus had a formation experience too.
• Take up your cross, give up your allegiances.

 

The goal of apprenticeship - 27:33

• Be present with the person who is discipling you and participate with him in what he is doing.
• Why are we starting with silence and solitude as our first spiritual discipline?
• Touching on the role of the 3 other spiritual disciplines.

 

Quotables

• “We absorb, we swim in waters, that project a good life, but they're doing something to us and there has to be a different way to live.”
• “...Any movement towards the way of Jesus is not it's, it's actually a counter formation. We're counter-forming against the way the world is forming us.”
• “It's in following Jesus, we are revoking or at least diminishing all other of our identities, not to where they don't exist. Cause God created us with the particularities that we have as men or women or whatever ethnicity we come from, heritage, all of that's important for sure. It doesn't diminish or flatten that. But it does move all of those things to say, like, we now have a new fundamental allegiance in identity. It's not in being male or female. It's not in being American. It's not in being you know, a CEO it's not in any of those things. It's now what matters is this in this that we are in the family of God, that is first and fundamentally our primary allegiance. And if anything else bumps its head against that. It has to be dealt with.”

 

Resources & References

• David Foster Wallace - Kenyon College Commencement Speech (full transcript available here)