Discipleship : seeking the ‘Kingdom and his righteousness’

dc.contributor.authorNel, Malan
dc.date.accessioned2018-07-12T09:52:12Z
dc.date.available2018-07-12T09:52:12Z
dc.date.issued2017-11-10
dc.description.abstractWhen membership of the faith community gets separated from Biblical concepts for us Christians the church is gradually and slowly getting into trouble. This is especially true when membership and discipleship are separated. In the first article, I have mentioned that discipleship may have become unpopular because of mainly two reasons: the wrong association with confrontational evangelism and secondly for the inconvenience of the radical nature of discipleship, especially in a situation where churches are still monocultural and still prefer the ‘convenience’ of a culturally constituted and dominated church. In this article, the focus will be on the role of the church in seeking the ‘Kingdom and his righteousness’ (Mt 6:33) and on what seeking might entail, with special reference to continuing formation of the membership on this journey of following the Christ. The background to my research problem and question is that the ‘we’ can just not afford that people, because of the church, not being serious about herself, turn away from the church – but turn to God: ‘Everyday people are straying away from the church and going back to God’ (Lenny Bruce †1966). This is just not normal.en_ZA
dc.description.departmentPractical Theologyen_ZA
dc.description.librarianam2018en_ZA
dc.description.urihttp://www.hts.org.zaen_ZA
dc.identifier.citationNel, M., 2017, ‘Discipleship: Seeking the “Kingdom and his righteousness”’, HTS Teologiese Studies/ Theological Studies 73(4), a4609. https://DOI.org/ 10.4102/hts.v73i4.4609.en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn0259-9422 (print)
dc.identifier.issn2072-8050 (online)
dc.identifier.other10.4102/hts.v73i4.4609
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/65373
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherAOSIS Open Journalsen_ZA
dc.rights© 2017. The Authors. Licensee: AOSIS. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License.en_ZA
dc.subjectFaith communityen_ZA
dc.subjectChristiansen_ZA
dc.subjectDiscipleshipen_ZA
dc.subjectChurchen_ZA
dc.subjectKingdom
dc.subjectRighteousness
dc.subject.otherTheology articles SDG-04
dc.subject.otherSDG-04: Quality education
dc.subject.otherTheology articles SDG-10
dc.subject.otherSDG-10: Reduced inequalities
dc.subject.otherTheology articles SDG-16
dc.subject.otherSDG-16: Peace, justice and strong institutions
dc.titleDiscipleship : seeking the ‘Kingdom and his righteousness’en_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA

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