and realized that YOU were a disciple? Wouldn't that feel strange? Of course knowing my own circumstances I would immediately protest: "I'm not right for the job!" I'm a sinner and I'm confused and I often don't even want to do it. I hardly participate at all. I have a list as long as my arm as to why I would make a poor disciple! I'm barely a prodigal. Yet, if I still felt compelled, the whole thing weighing on me like a sack of multiplied fish, perhaps I could persist. Or perhaps unlike Paul I would want to go immediately back to tent making. The disciples didn't even review or buy books on Amazon. Being a disciple in modernity is a crushing burden. The Gospel According to Me: A heretic finds his way in modernity using Jungian psychology, science, dreams, and, well, the GospelsGet more detail about Knowing Christ Today: Why We Can Trust Spiritual Knowledge.
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