My continuing ramblings as I try read the Erwin McManus’s book the Barbarian way.
When you join the barbarian tribe, you begin to live your life with your eyes and your heart wide open. When the Spirit of God envelopes your soul, your spirit comes alive, and everything changes for you. You are no longer the same. And to those who cannot see the invisible, to those that refuse to believe it exists, the path you choose, the life you live, may lead them to conclude that you are not simply different but insane. People who are fully alive look out of their minds to those who simply exist.
While discipleship attempts to bring people into conformity into actions and relationships with Christ, Mcmanus argues the opposite. he argues that instead of bringing people into the center of a circle it implodes the circle. The closer that one come in their relationship to Christ the more it implodes their worldview. This is an awesome thought. Instead of the desire to have a better Bible study or prayer life; it changes our worldview. No longer can we settle for another Tuesday night study but we turn into those that are willing to risk it all for our relationship. Suddenly we are developing programs for the underprivedged, instead of talking about it. Developing churches for the disenfranchised instead of wondering why they simply will not come back. Our desire is not about conforming and becoming civilized. In a barbarian society there are no rules but the rules of the wild. The rule is to relentlessly follow God in all aspects of our life.
How does that change how we view our discipleship?
