{"id":72312,"date":"2024-07-12T15:12:46","date_gmt":"2024-07-12T07:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hkbts.edu.hk\/?p=72312"},"modified":"2025-06-13T17:30:57","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T09:30:57","slug":"a-different-life-as-a-disciple-of-the-lord-an-unexpected-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hkbts.edu.hk\/en\/?p=72312\/","title":{"rendered":"Discipleship and the Miracle of a New Family"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"72312\" class=\"elementor elementor-72312\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-0e47810 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no wpr-equal-height-no\" data-id=\"0e47810\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div 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elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"18cfc19\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-no-translation=\"\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"has-text-color\" style=\"color: #235ba8; font-size: 24px;\"><strong>Discipleship and Simple Obedience<\/strong><\/h3><p align=\"\u201cjustify\u201d\">\u3000\u3000At Hong Kong Baptist Theological Seminary, \u201cdiscipleship\u201d \u300c\u4f5c\u4e3b\u9580\u5f92\u300d is a popular mantra that is often repeated in our hallways, classrooms, and daily conversations. It is a topic of research interest to many of our faculty, and it has become an integral part of our ethos and identity as a seminary. Dietrich Bonhoeffer reminds us that discipleship is a call to avoid \u201ccheap grace\u201d and embrace instead a \u201ccostly grace.\u201d <sup>1<\/sup> Costly grace, Bonhoeffer contends, involves a commitment to Jesus that demands our \u201csimple obedience\u201d\u2014a faithful surrender of one\u2019s will to his in any given situation. <sup>2<\/sup> Bonhoeffer compares simple obedience to choosing death in a famous quotation from his famous work, <em>The Cost of Discipleship<\/em>: \u201cWhen Christ calls a man, He bids him come and die. It may be a death like that of the first disciples who had to leave home and work to follow Him, or it may be a death like Luther\u2019s, who had to leave the monastery and go out into the world.\u201d <sup>3<\/sup> Regardless of the circumstance, it is a person\u2019s obedience to God that counts.<\/p><p align=\"\u201cjustify\u201d\">\u3000\u3000When a person decides to follow Jesus, there are certain realities that must be acknowledged. First, the act of following assumes that one does not know which way to go. The decision to follow Jesus is also a confession that the truth lies beyond ourselves. Following denotes motion, and Jesus\u2019 original disciples followed him on a physical journey. <sup>4<\/sup> In fact, in Acts, the early Christians are described as people of \u201cThe Way.\u201d <sup>5<\/sup> Second, the choice to follow Jesus is based on the conviction that he knows the way. And so, following Jesus requires faith\u2014we have to believe that he is trustworthy. Third, following entails surrendering one\u2019s own way. We cannot simultaneously be following Jesus and be going our own way. One of the greatest challenges in following Jesus is the command to relinquish control over one\u2019s life and one\u2019s own choices. And finally, when we follow Jesus, we have no control over which other people Jesus calls to follow him.<\/p><h3 class=\"has-text-color\" style=\"color: #235ba8; font-size: 24px;\"><strong>Calls Us into a New Community, a New Family<\/strong><\/h3><p align=\"\u201cjustify\u201d\">\u3000\u3000In the gospel accounts, whenever someone chooses to follow Jesus, they also become members of a new family. This is a family not defined by kinship, but by one\u2019s response to Jesus\u2019 message. David Watson says that the glory of the Christian gospel is that Jesus did not call individuals to stay in isolation, but to join the new community of God\u2019s people. <sup>6<\/sup> No one who follows Jesus will ever be alone again. This is one of the reasons the gospel is good news. Jesus says to his disciples in Mark 3:34-35: \u201cHere are my mother and my brothers! Whoever does the will of God is my brother and sister and mother.\u201d He is redefining the boundaries of what constitutes a family to include those who are not related by physical kinship, but by their allegiance to God. <sup>7<\/sup> Similarly, in Luke 11:27, a woman who hears Jesus\u2019 teaching blesses his mother Mary, but Jesus responds by saying: \u201cBlessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it!\u201d While it may appear that Jesus is being dismissive of his own mother, he is actually expressing the notion that there is something greater than family ties: an appropriate response to God\u2019s message. Those who share this response become members of a new community. <sup>8<\/sup> The intimate association with Jesus, the profound sense of belonging and support, the feeling of being fully accepted \u2013 these are all wonderful benefits of what it means to become a follower of Jesus. <sup>9<\/sup><\/p><p align=\"\u201cjustify\u201d\">\u3000\u3000This is also an important theme in the rest of the New Testament. Regardless of someone\u2019s heritage or circumstance, they are now given the privilege of becoming children of God. The prologue of John\u2019s Gospel says: \u201c\u2026to all who received him, who believed in his name, he gave power to become children of God, who were born, not of blood or of the will of the flesh or of the will of man, but of God.\u201d (Jn 1:12-13) The writer of 1 Peter is even able to say to Gentile believers: \u201cOnce you were not a people, but now you are God\u2019s people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.\u201d (1 Pet 2:10) Believers enter into a new social reality along with new relationships and responsibilities. The renewal of the image of God in human beings is a recognition that, in Christ, the things that used to divide people do so no longer; the family of God transcends ethnicity, gender, and kinship. <sup>10<\/sup> The formation of a new community is a tremendous miracle and blessing, because it reverses the alienation caused by human sin by uniting all people into one family in and through Christ. <sup>11<\/sup><\/p><h3 class=\"has-text-color\" style=\"color: #235ba8; font-size: 24px;\"><strong>The New Family That Transcends All Boundaries<\/strong><\/h3><p align=\"\u201cjustify\u201d\">\u3000\u3000However, it is not until we take a closer look at Jesus\u2019 first disciples that we can see just how miraculous this is, and that the vision of a new family in Christ was already being realized during his earthly ministry. Apart from their decision to follow him, Jesus\u2019 followers were a diverse group people that had very little else in common.<\/p><p align=\"\u201cjustify\u201d\">\u3000\u3000As was expected in the 1st century Jewish milieu, many of Jesus\u2019 disciples were men. However, it was highly unusual for a Jewish teacher to have a group of women followers. <sup>12<\/sup> It is remarkable that women disciples played such an important role in Jesus\u2019 ministry. Luke 8:1-3 says that in addition to the Twelve, Jesus\u2019 followers also included women whom Jesus had healed. Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James and Joses, and Salome were present at his crucifixion, <sup>13<\/sup> and the testimonies of women are crucial to the resurrection narratives. <sup>14<\/sup> In John 4, Jesus is engaged in a dialogue with a Samaritan woman about the Temple. These details point to the fact that Jesus accepted women into his company of followers, and those who wanted to be his disciples had to accept this fact, regardless of their previously held notions about the role and status of women.<\/p><p align=\"\u201cjustify\u201d\">\u3000\u3000Similarly, while many of Jesus\u2019 disciples were Jews, he also attracted people who were not Jews. Jesus\u2019 ministry extended to the people from the Gentile region of Tyre and Sidon; <sup>15<\/sup> later on Jesus himself would make the journey to Tyre and Sidon, where he heals a Canaanite woman\u2019s daughter and feeds 4000 people. <sup>16<\/sup> Jesus heals a Samaritan man with leprosy in Luke 17:11-19, and stays in a Samaritan village in John 4:40-42. Regardless of any misgivings Jesus\u2019 followers might have had about Gentiles, they were required to set their differences aside as they followed him into Gentile regions and stayed in their cities, as he ministered to them and welcomed their people to be his followers. They had to set their nationalistic pride aside in order to follow Jesus. Being a disciple of Jesus meant that they had to modify their attitudes towards outsiders.<\/p><p align=\"\u201cjustify\u201d\">\u3000\u3000Jesus\u2019s followers also included both the rich and the poor, the powerful and the weak, the ritually \u201cclean\u201d and the \u201cunclean,\u201d and people with different ideologies. While some of Jesus\u2019 disciples were wealthy\u2014people like Levi or Zacchaeus are able to host banquets in their homes\u2014others were beggars like the blind beggar Bartimaeus. <sup>17<\/sup> While some his disciples were powerful like Joseph of Arimathea, who may have been a member of the Sanhedrin, others were lowly fishermen. <sup>18<\/sup> Some were respected members of society who were ceremonially pure, like the Pharisees Nicodemus or Simon, <sup>19<\/sup> others were shunned outcasts like Simon the leper or sinful women, or people from whom Jesus cast out demons. <sup>20<\/sup><\/p><p align=\"\u201cjustify\u201d\">\u3000\u3000Jesus\u2019 disciples also included people with opposite political ideologies. In a list of Jesus\u2019 twelve disciples in Luke 6:14-16, one of the disciples is a man called Simon the \u201cZealot.\u201d Some scholars understand the \u201cZealot\u201d to refer to Simon\u2019s association with religious zeal. Richard Horsley has warned against identifying the term Zealot with the later Jewish sect of Zealots dedicated to revolution against Rome, because this group did not emerge until closer to the fall of 67 CE. It is interesting, though, that these Zealots were victims of Roman violence, who were based in Judea, and who resorted to violence themselves by targeting Herodian nobles who were unjustly wealthy and influential, and who they felt were traitors by corroborating with the Romans. <sup>21<\/sup> Although Simon cannot be definitively linked to the Zealots, who only emerged later, Jesus\u2019 disciples included wealthy people who worked for the Romans to betray their own people: the tax collectors. Jesus is notorious for spending time with tax collectors, and two of them, Zacchaeus and Matthew (also called Levi), <sup>22<\/sup> even became some of his closest followers. How might Simon the \u201cZealot\u201d have felt inside Zacchaeus\u2019 home, or walking next to Matthew on the way to Jerusalem?<\/p><p align=\"\u201cjustify\u201d\">\u3000\u3000Some of Jesus\u2019 disciples were formerly John the Baptist\u2019s disciples (e.g. Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter). From the description of John in the canonical gospels and Josephus, he was regarded as a Judean holy man who had an emphasis on purification, asceticism, and repentance. His disciples were expected to fast and pray often, and people were somewhat surprised that Jesus\u2019 disciples did not share the same commitment to piety. <sup>23<\/sup> How might Andrew have felt, following Jesus as he ate and drank with the tax collectors and the prostitutes, as he disregarded the ceremonial laws and touched the people suffering from leprosy, when mingled with the high and the lowly alike, when he would deign to minister to foreigners.<\/p><h3 class=\"has-text-color\" style=\"color: #235ba8; font-size: 24px;\"><strong>Jesus Calls Us to Leave Our Own Camp<\/strong><\/h3><p align=\"\u201cjustify\u201d\">\u3000\u3000As anyone who is a part of a family will know, there are also unique challenges when it comes to dealing with our family members. Families can be a source of love, warmth, support, acceptance, and protection. When family members disappoint us, hurt us, or disagree with us on important issues, we can become frustrated or angry. We do not get to choose our family, and they do not choose us\u2014we are united by an inextricable and inescapable bond. This aspect of family also applies to the family of faith. Although the bond is different\u2014the determining factor is not physical birth, but spiritual birth in Christ\u2014the fact remains that we simply do not get to choose who our fellow disciples are. To use another analogy from a parable in Matt 20:1-16, we are merely fellow laborers in our master\u2019s vineyard. We can only be grateful for our own employment and inclusion into the community; we do not have a say in who else is employed or how the master treats them. That part is not up to us. We can only accept this reality and learn to live together as best we can as a \u201ccommunity through Jesus Christ and in Jesus Christ.\u201d <sup>24<\/sup><\/p><h3 class=\"has-text-color\" style=\"color: #235ba8; font-size: 24px;\"><strong>A Total Allegiance to Jesus: Is to Die and Yet to Live<\/strong><\/h3><p align=\"\u201cjustify\u201d\">\u3000\u3000Perhaps the key to getting along with our fellow disciples and family members is to realize that Jesus did not call us because we are male or female, or rich or poor, or because we have certain political ideologies that distinguish us from other people. These cannot be the things that define who we are and that drive us apart, because those who profess to follow Jesus have made a conscious decision to detach from old ties and to attach to a new authority. <sup>25<\/sup> In Gal 3:26-28 Paul says: \u201c\u2026 in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith. As many of you as were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for all of you are one in Christ Jesus.\u201d In Philippians 3:7-8, Paul considers knowing Christ Jesus as the greatest worth; in comparison, he even regards his Jewish lineage, educational qualifications and experiences as worthless.<\/p><p align=\"\u201cjustify\u201d\">\u3000\u3000Stephen Barton suggests that the call of discipleship is \u201can invitation to a new and transcendent allegiance which, on Christological and eschatological grounds, relativizes other ties and offers the possibility of a personal identity defined no longer in terms of what is ascribed according to blood and marriage \u2026\u201d<sup>26<\/sup> being a disciple of Jesus amounts to a detachment of allegiance from all other allegiances\u2014whether it is an allegiance to one\u2019s gender, ethnicity, nationality, school, socio-economic status, philosophy, or political ideology\u2014and a total allegiance to Jesus. <sup>27<\/sup><\/p><p align=\"\u201cjustify\u201d\">\u3000\u3000To borrow Bonhoeffer\u2019s expression, \u201csimple obedience\u201d to Jesus does not only refer to submitting to God\u2019s will for our own lives, but also to acknowledging the fact that we are now a part of a new community, in which our previous allegiances and affiliations no longer take precedence. This includes forsaking the prejudice, bias, and self-serving attitudes that we used to have, and following the way of Jesus, who brings us into community with those we never thought possible.<\/p><p align=\"\u201cjustify\u201d\">\u3000\u3000This is something very different from tolerance, or simply accepting others \u201cas they are\u201d; it is something much more profound. It is accepting the fact that Jesus is now at the center of our existence, and our decision to follow him may well lead us to let go of some of the things we considered most important about ourselves\u2014this will cause us to think differently about other people, who are different from us. But like us, they have begun a journey away from the self toward Christ at the center. Jesus\u2019 first disciples may have found this to be challenging, but in so doing they also became the first people of a new humanity that is diverse in every way, but united mysteriously in Christ.<\/p><p align=\"\u201cjustify\u201d\">\u3000\u3000As we continue to think and talk about discipleship at HKBTS, it may be beneficial to reflect more on implications of this glorious truth on our self-understanding as Jesus\u2019 disciples. Bonhoeffer is quite right that true discipleship is a call to choose \u201cdeath\u201d to the self, but he also understands that death is not the end. Bonhoeffer observes, \u201cEveryone enters discipleship alone, but no one remains alone in discipleship \u2026 the promise of a new community is given to them\u201d <sup>28<\/sup> Discipleship is not only death, but also a miraculous rebirth into a wonderful family we never imagine we could have.<\/p><h3 class=\"has-text-color\" style=\"color: #808080; font-size: 10px;\">____________________________________________<\/h3><p style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><sup>1<\/sup> Dietrich Bonhoeffer, <em>Discipleship: Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works\u2013\u2013Reader\u2019s Edition<\/em>, trans. Barbara Green &amp; Reinhard Krauss (Minneapolis: Fortress, 2015), 5.<br \/><sup>2<\/sup> Bonhoeffer relates the idea of obedience to costly grace: \u201cWherever simple obedience is fundamentally eliminated, there again the <em>costly grace<\/em> of Jesus\u2019 call has become the <em>cheap grace<\/em> of self-justification.\u201d Bonhoeffer, <em>Discipleship<\/em>, 45.<br \/><sup>3<\/sup> Dietrich Bonhoeffer, <em>The Cost of Discipleship<\/em> (London: SCM, 1948\/2001), 44.<br \/><sup>4<\/sup> Ernest Best, <em>Disciples and Discipleship: Studies in the Gospel According to Mark<\/em> (Edinburgh: T&amp;T Clark, 1986), 5.<br \/><sup>5<\/sup> Acts 9:2; 18:25-26; 19:9, 23; 24:14, 22.<br \/><sup>6<\/sup> David Watson, <em>Discipleship<\/em> (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1981\/1983), 37.<br \/><sup>7<\/sup> See also Warren Carter, \u201cThe Disciples,\u201d in <em>Jesus among Friends and Enemies: A Historical and Literary Introduction to Jesus in the Gospels<\/em>, ed. Chris Keith &amp; Larry Hurtado (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2011), 85.<br \/><sup>8<\/sup> Best, <em>Disciples and Discipleship<\/em>, 61-62.<br \/><sup>9<\/sup> Watson, <em>Discipleship<\/em>, 35-47.<br \/><sup>10<\/sup> E.g. Gal 3:28-29; Col 3:11.<br \/><sup>11<\/sup> Especially Eph 1:10; 2:14-16.<br \/><sup>12<\/sup> Although the word \u201cdisciple\u201d is not used to describe women who follow Jesus in the NT, they played a significant role in Jesus\u2019 activities. Carter, \u201cThe Disciples,\u201d 85.<br \/><sup>13<\/sup> Mark 15:40-41; Matt 27:56; cf. John 19:25.<br \/><sup>14<\/sup> Mark 16:1-8; Matt 28:1-10; Luke 24:1-10.<br \/><sup>15<\/sup> Mk 3:8; Lk 6:17.<br \/><sup>16<\/sup> Mt 15:21-28, 32-39; Mk 7:24-31<br \/><sup>17<\/sup> C.f. Luke 5:29; 19:7; Mark 10:46.<br \/><sup>18<\/sup> John 19:38 refers to Joseph of Arimathea as a \u201csecret\u201d disciple of Jesus; Mark 15:43 and Luke 23:50\u201351 refer to him as belonging on a council that made a verdict on the case of Jesus. See David M. Allen, \u201cSecret Disciples: Nicodemus and Joseph of Arimathea,\u201d in <em>Jesus among Friends and Enemies<\/em>, 162-168. On the low status of fishermen, see K. C. Hanson and Douglas E. Oakman, <em>Palestine in the Time of Jesus<\/em> (Minneapolis: Fortress, 1998), 106-110.<br \/><sup>19<\/sup> John 3:1 (Nicodemus); Luke 7:36, 40 (Simon); Luke 7:37 (an adulteress woman); Luke 8:39 (a man from whom Jesus cast out a demon). On Nicodemus, see Allen, \u201cSecret Disciples,\u201d 152-153.<br \/><sup>20<\/sup> Matt 26:6; Mk 5:19-20, 14:3; Jn 4:1-42.<br \/><sup>21<\/sup> Richard A. Horsley, \u201cThe Zealots: Their Origin, Relationships, and Importance in the Jewish Revolt,\u201d <em>Novum Testamentum<\/em> 28\/2 (1986): 190-191.<br \/><sup>22<\/sup> Luke 19:1-10; Matthew 9:9-13; Mark 2:13-17; Luke 5:27-32.<br \/><sup>23<\/sup> Mark 2:18-20; Luke 5:33-35. See also, Michael F. Bird, \u201cJohn the Baptist,\u201d in <em>Jesus among Friends and Enemies<\/em>, 61-80.<br \/><sup>24<\/sup> Dietrich Bonhoeffer, <em>Life Together: Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works\u2013\u2013Reader\u2019s Edition<\/em>, trans. Daniel W. Bloesch (Minneapolis: Fortress, 2015), 5.<br \/><sup>25<\/sup> Charles H. Talbert, \u201cDiscipleship in Luke-Acts,\u201d in <em>Discipleship in the New Testament<\/em>, ed. Fernando F. Segovia (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1985), 62.<br \/><sup>26<\/sup> Stephen C. Barton, <em>Discipleship and Family Ties in Mark and Matthew<\/em> (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994), 221.<br \/><sup>27<\/sup> This is likely the meaning of Luke 14:26-27. It is not a matter of \u201chating one\u2019s life\u201d but of ultimate allegiance to Jesus, regardless of any previous attachments or affiliations.<br \/><sup>28<\/sup> Bonhoeffer, <em>Discipleship<\/em>, 66.<\/p><p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan Lo Assistant Professor, New Testament Discipleship and Simple Obedience Discipleship is a topic of interest to many faculty members and an important part of our college\u2019s character and identity. Dietrich Bonhoeffer reminds us that discipleship is a call to receive \u201ccostly grace\u201d rather than to pursue \u201ccheap grace.\u201d1 He points out that costly grace emphasizes commitment to Christ, which requires \u201csimple obedience\u201d\u2014faithful submission to His will in all circumstances. 2 Bonhoeffer likened pure obedience to choosing to die, which became a famous quote in his famous book The Cost of Discipleship: &quot;When Christ calls a person, he commands him to come and die. It may be death like the first disciples, who left their family and work to follow him; it may be death like Luther, who left the monastery and went out into the world.&quot;3 Whatever the circumstances, the key is the person&#039;s obedience to God. When a person decides to follow Jesus, he must acknowledge several facts. First, the act of following assumes that he does not know the way to go. Deciding to follow Jesus is also equivalent to admitting that the truth is outside of us. Following also means moving, and Jesus&#039; first disciples did follow him on a real journey. 4 In fact, in the book of Acts, the early Christians are described as believers in &quot;The Way.&quot; 5 Second, the decision to follow Jesus is based on the belief that he knows the way to go. Therefore, to follow Jesus, you must believe that he is trustworthy. Third, to follow, you must give up the way you want to go. One of the greatest challenges for followers of Jesus is to be told to stop being in control of their own lives and decisions. Finally, in following Jesus, we have no control over who Jesus calls to follow Him. A Call to a New Community, a New Family The gospels describe how a person becomes a member of a new family when he or she decides to follow Jesus. Membership is not defined by kinship, but by a person\u2019s response to Jesus\u2019 message. David Watson says that the glory of the gospel is that Jesus calls people to join a new community of God\u2019s people, not to continue on their own. 6 One of the reasons the gospel is good news is that those who follow Jesus are no longer alone. Mark records Jesus saying to his disciples, \u201cBehold, my mother and my brothers! For whoever does the will of God is my brother, sister, and mother\u201d (Mark 3:34-35). He redefines the boundaries of the family, not by kinship, but by those who have pledged their allegiance to God. 7 Jesus points to the need for people to respond appropriately to God\u2019s message.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[292],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-292"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>\u4f5c\u4e3b\u9580\u5f92 \u2014\u2014 \u4e0d\u4e00\u6a23\u7684\u751f\u547d\uff0e\u610f\u60f3\u4e0d\u5230\u7684\u5bb6 - 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