| Ethnicity and Discipleship |  |
Read for This Week's Study:
Memory Text:
| | "I have become all things to all men, that I might by all means save some" (1 Corinthians 9:22, NRSV). |
| | Jim felt called to take the gospel to a foreign country. Upon arrival, he discovered that the people had a test for foreigners to earn the right to stay among them. The foreigner had to swallow, and not regurgitate, a potion. If the person failed the test, he or she had to leave immediately; otherwise, they could be eaten by the tribe. Jim watched the tribe prepare the potion of milk, human saliva, blood, chewed-up herbs, and other herbal concoctions. It looked and smelled sickening. All he could do was pray—and drink. To everyone's amazement (especially his own), Jim drank it and held it down, earning the right to remain. Making disciples might require us to do strange things: eat or drink strange mixtures, and be all things to all people so we can win some. This is the call and challenge of discipleship, especially as the gospel goes around the world and into cultures sometimes radically different from our own. |
This Week at a Glance:
| | What other examples do we have of Jesus ministering to others besides Jews? Who were the God-fearers and what can we learn from them about discipleship? What can we learn today from the Antioch model of discipleship? |
*Study this week's lesson to prepare for Sabbath, February 9.
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