Discipling By Jesus aims to become an:

• Amateur
• Experiential
• Curious
• Network

of people who practice denying themselves, taking up their cross, and follow Jesus.

I was deeply inspired by Jessie (with an ‘e’) Cruickshank and her vision of “unwinding” a couple millennia of bad habits in order to recover authentic discipleship, after it was:

• Professionalized by Constantine
• Intellectualized by the Enlightenment
• Sermonized by Calvin
• Individualized by Americans

The positive alternative is a discipling movement built around being:

• Amateur: people fueled by passion, not qualifications; whose career and livelihood is not dependent on their discipleship conforming to institutional norms.
• Experiential: holistically encountering Jesus through His Word & Spirit, Body & Blood; including our heart, soul & strength, not just our mind.
• Curious: constantly seeking to ask better questions rather than merely be told the right answers
• Networked: aggregated into overlapping communities of practice, focused on different locales, problems, and skills