Apprenticeship with Jesus: Learning to Live like the Master
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
Ask a crowd of Christians whether they believe in Jesus as Lord and Savior, and all hands will go up. Ask the same crowd whether they live like Jesus, and most of those same hands will come down. Why is this? Why is it so hard to bridge the gap between belief and real life? In this winsome book, Gary W. Moon offers a 30-day apprenticeship with Jesus, a journey in which you actively practice being with Jesus day-in and day-out. Each day’s reading uses compelling stories and Scripture and suggests an apprenticeship activity to help your faith impact your real life.
Top Highlights
“The central teachings of both Jesus and Paul underscore God’s invitation for us to leave our natural habitat (the world of self-rule) and enter into a whole new realm of existence (the kingdom of God-rule). While Jesus liked to talk about ‘the kingdom’ and Paul preferred to use phrases such as being ‘in Christ,’ they were describing the same thing: interactive friendship and obedience to Christ, in which we gradually learn to be more like him by being with him—learning how to stay as close to Christ as branches are to their vine. The whole enterprise looks much more like a classical apprenticeship than our modern programs of decision-driven evangelism and fact-wrapped discipleship.” (Page 23)
“grace was not so much about a legal release from guilt but the real possibility of a spiritual oneness with God.” (Page 32)
“Spiritual disciplines become ways of learning from my friend and master craftsman of life and relationship.” (Page 22)
“Story is invasive, relentless like cactus and kudzu; it can root itself in a human heart and push upward, dislodging hard places like broken asphalt.” (Page 18)