Disconnected Disciple

The disciple of Christ desires above all else to be like him. Sometimes I feel like a disconnected disciple. Disciples follow their teacher. You're sitting in class, working hard on your assignment, learning the material and taking a fascination to the exercises in the book. All of the sudden you look up and the classroom is empty, the teacher has gone somewhere else. The rest of the students have followed him. Panic strikes. Where did he go? How could I have missed the movement?

Many pastors and others who teach and preach in congregations have expressed this same scenario. We spend so much time preparing sermons, learning theology, setting up lessons using the text book (Bible); that we find it easy to neglect the Bible as a revelation of who the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are and what they are doing.

What's the fix? It's not quick. It's a lifetime of learning. It's following Christ; becoming a disciple. It's leaving all that we love, and following; dropping the nets, leaving the tax table, walking away from the family business, leaving the homeland, having no place to lay your head, taking up your cross, loving your enemies, praying for those who curse you, turning the other cheek, welcoming the little children, visiting the sick, those in prison, giving a glass of water, feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, staying on the vine.