To Teach The Way

Is it possible to teach a way of life? Is it possible to teach a way of living? Or are we just supposed to figure it out for ourselves? The public school system believes that we are to learn how to live on our own. They only teach what we need to know. It is up to us to figure out how to use it. We figure out what we believe, what is right, and what is good.

One of the reasons for the writing of The Divine Conspiracy is the implementation of this thinking in the church. Teach them what they need to know, but they are on their own after that. It has even been said that it is not the right of any individual to impress their way of life on another person. This is part of the American dream: we are free from the direction of our neighbor.

Chapter 9 of the Divine Conspiracy tackles this topic: how to make disicpleship a curriculum. For as much emphasis as the church puts on change and becoming a new person, it is amazing to see how few classes and programs there are to create that exact change. It is understandable that churches do not want to make change and systematic process where you go through the steps and finish at the end. However, there is little to no programing whatsoever to guide Christians in discipleship in Jesus Christ. This chapter explains that it is possible to create a curriculum to teach Jesus’s way of life. It is no up to us, the church, to incorporate this idea into our own teaching schedule in order to prepare each life we reach for Jesus.