RRR_discipling_paradigms

 


 So now we come to the matter of remember when it comes to paradigms. Paradigms are a very interesting set of presumptions. They are what we believe to be true, even though we have no cognizance of why we believe it, to be true. We just accept it, to be true, like fiat currency, a dollar bill, we believe that a dollar bill has a dollars value when we buy, for example, half a piece of bubblegum, today in 2025. For a 1$, because a dollar used to buy us about 10 pieces of bubble gum, they were a dime a piece, today; it will buy about half a piece of bubble gum. And inflation is out of control.

Meanwhile, what do we have going on in terms of paradigms, we have beliefs, we have beliefs, for example. That certain things are the way that they are, and that's the way they're always going to be. None of that, according to the Bible is real because, according to the Bible, God is in charge. And God is not going to be mocked, and God will have the final say, because God's, God! So when it comes to paradigms, when it comes to disciples, the important thing about paradigms probably is to bring them back to Jesus. 

Back to Jesus back to Jesus back to the teachings, in Matthew, Mark, Luke, John; back to the explosive events of Acts, back to the explosive events of Paul's conversion on the Damascus road. Back to the letters of Paul, the theology of what it means to be the church and the body of Christ bring them back. 

To being disciples in the body of Christ, who look for people that they like; who look for people that they love; who look for people that they can relate to, so that they can talk to them about what it means to follow and be a learner. That's what the word disciple means a learner of Jesus, what does it mean to be a learner of Jesus? 

It means to get into the word. John says that the word became flesh and dwelt among us. That is a very specific description of what happened with Jesus. He is the word, he is the word of God. He is the Bible in flesh. Now the Bible is a book that when you read it, it reads you. So how's that for a paradigm? When we talk about paradigms, things that we believe to be true, without even really understanding why we believe that they are true. Those are paradigms and paradigms govern our conduct in our lives.

Jesus, said our paradigms are to be what Jesus said are paradigms. In a sermon on the mount, which we're gonna go into, because he talks about something called the be attitudes, and so when you're working with disciples, you want to understand paradigms, what are their paradigms, what do they believe, and they need to know that you want to know what their paradigms are? 

Sometimes that means that you're gonna have to go into dark places. Sometimes that means you're going to have to understand some things that aren't comfortable for you to understand. But the point is they're people that you are bringing back to Jesus, to learn about Jesus and where do you do that at? In the word that became flesh and dwelled among us.

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