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costly habits

Just got this quote and question from Nathan this past week. What do you think?

"Discipleship is no easy church program. It is a summons away from our characteristic safety nets of social support. It entails a resolve to follow a leader who himself has costly habits, in order to engage in disciplines that disentangle us from ways in which we are schooled and stupefied and that introduce new habits that break old vicious cycles among us, drawing us into intimacy with this calling God. Discipleship requires a whole new conversation in a church that has been too long accommodating, at ease in the dominant values of culture that fly in the face of the purposes of God."

Brueggemann, Walter "Evangelism and Discipleship: The God Who Calls, the God Who Sends." in Chilcote and Warner, The Study of Evangelism: Exploring a Missional Practice of the Church. Eerdmands Publishing: Grand Rapids. 2008.


Do we, as leaders have "costly habits"?

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