A Living Image

A Living Image of Communion
Discipleship as a Three-Legged Stool, Week 12
by Adam White

Over the past three months we have been discerning what discipleship looks like from our perspective at Missional Wisdom by using the image of a stool. One leg of the stool represents community. One leg is the loving of our neighbors as ourselves. Another leg is the pouring and filling of grace that we experience in following Christ is the greatest commandment. The top of the stool and connecting factor is the missional life of faith.

Metric

Metric
Discipleship as a Three-Legged Stool, Week 11
by Andrea Lingle

How many inches are there in a mile?

Well, there are twelve inches in a foot and five thousand two hundred and eighty feet in a mile, so…

The Infinity of Now

The Infinity of Now
Discipleship as a Three-Legged Stool, Week 10
by Andrea Lingle

There is power in a circle.

There is tension in a circle: an infinite number of points presses out from a central point of unity. There is balance in a circle: each of the infinite points is equally distant from the center of the circle.

Windblown

Windblown
Discipleship as a Three-Legged Stool, Week 6
by Andrea Lingle

There is a churchyard in central North Carolina, roughly an hour east of Charlotte, where, in early spring, the lawn is sewn entirely in dandelions. I don’t know if these dandelions were cultivated intentionally, but one of my greatest regrets is that I never stopped my car, just for one minute, to run through the seed heads.

Pierced

Pierced
Discipleship as a Three-Legged Stool, Week 5
by Andrea Lingle

It was a large stone; about the size of a slightly flattened egg. There were a dozen pits covering its surface. I scooped it off the shore and held it up to the sunlight, squeezing one eye shut to focus on each hole. I sighed. Not one hole went clear through. It needed more time. I hurled it back in the water.

Loving Messily in a Messy World

There is a moment almost every single day when I find that all of the training that I have ever done in my life isn't enough.

Not nearly enough.

I am a mother of several children.

Love is God's Meaning

Love is God's Meaning
Discipleship as a Three-Legged Stool, Week 3
by Adam White

I was frozen and numb. I had just realized my mother stopped breathing in hospice care at Arlington Memorial Hospital. She had breathed her last breath without any pain, which was a blessing considering the past eight years of her life had been a slow mental and physical deterioration due to dementia.

Why Your Jesus is Everyone's Jesus

Why Your Jesus is Everyone's Jesus
Discipleship as a Three-Legged Stool,
Week 2
by Adam White

f only the New Testament could be prefaced by:

*pastes in bible* This message is not just for you. This message is not just for your particular culture, ethnicity, race, or any other dividing line that keeps you from being in a relationship with other people; especially people who are different from you.

Balancing Our Faith

Balancing our Faith
Discipleship as a Three-Legged Stool, Week 1
by Adam White

When I was thirteen, I had to create a bridge out of balsa wood for a science class and test how much weight it could hold. As my dad and I were making the bridge I kept thinking how flimsy and weak the wood was. Thankfully, my dad is a structural engineer. Once we were done, the bridge held over 25 pounds! Our faith is similar to a well-built bridge: it requires careful precision and thoughtful detail.