RRR_discipling_recount_accuracy
Recount, for clarification, because it’s one thing to remember any event, it’s another thing to itemize or account for the different aspects of that event. So now you see kind of the accounting background to recount. And it isn’t a bad thing at all—it’s a very good thing—because it’s important to understand what it is that you perceive as having taken place in your life, relative to Christ, in a numeric set of values. This time He did this, this time He did this, this time Jesus did this. That’s how the Gospels break out the interaction between Christ and His disciples.
Therefore, does it not make sense that we should break down our existence with Christ in the same manner?
Doesn’t it seem wise—perhaps wise as a serpent and harmless as a dove—that we would learn to recount and consider as accurately as possible the times that Almighty God, Elohim, in the point of the Holy Spirit, has brought us to a point of committing something as an action that has had a result in our lives and in the lives of others?
That’s recounting. You want it to be as accurate as possible. Now, that means that you’re going to include those times when people self-righteously come after you—when people self-righteously say that they know the truth and you’re not enacting the truth, and that you need to act a certain way in order to be acting the truth of the Bible. And the way that they perceive you is that you are erroneous in your behavior.
You need to be able to account for that. Why? Because later on, when you take that interpretation of events back to the Scriptures, you’re going to discover something: you weren’t wrong, you weren’t in error—they were.
But those who seek to keep things always constant, always without conflict, always without intervention, always without change, will always seek to maintain the status quo by shaming those who are trying to make a difference and change in the status quo. Run that past your thinking a little bit every once in a while, because trust me when I tell you that tradition—the law—kills. But the Spirit, which is progressive and new, based on what today Paul says, “Forgetting the past, this I do: I press on to the high calling of God in Christ”—I press on, go.
It’s the word that God most frequently uses to tell people to go and make change. You don’t see God saying, “Hold up the status quo,” although many people who want the status quo maintain the status quo because they’re comfortable in the status quo. And who wouldn’t be? Living the life that they’re living in total comfort—who wouldn’t be comfortable in the status quo?
To the point that they think they need to self-righteously point out to you that your behavior doesn’t measure up to what they believe—their interpretation of the status quo, God’s Word according to them is. But according to God, according to Jesus, His Word says: go and teach and make what? Disciples.
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