January 08 DTS week 7
Intimate Discipleship and Politics & Justice

Discipleship, that’s what a Discipleship Training School is about.
It’s a great challenge for all of us students.
Why? - watch this!
- Are you hungry for Jesus?
- To love Jesus IS to obey Jesus
- Become who you were born to be!
- Take up your cross every single TODAY!
- Intimacy with Jesus means ultimate vulnerability and ultimate freedom
These are just some of the points we had to deal with.

Means: First to analyse where we are, then to think where we want to be.
To find a way to get there, and finally to accept or to reject the challenge.

One place where the challenge turns practical is the Wednesday afternoon outreach in Luton. We set up a cafe in St. Mary’s, sent some people out to invite, some pray and some host and talk. I had quite some difficulties to approach people on the street and invite them to the cafe, just for the fear of being ignored or laughed at. I say, and I think I mean, that I would give everything for Jesus. However, I struggle to get out of my comfort-zone for that little an issue.

The second part of the week was about Politics and Justice. I think most of us, including me, understood for the first time, that Christians actually should get involved in Politics, as the world is God’s and he wants it to be ruled in his way. Who on earth would know better what God wants for the world than those who follow him?

These are the kinds of thoughts and questions we had to face this week.

Andreas, Germany