Discipleship
This is the book I have been reading for about 6 months now off and on. It is really series of lectures delivered around 1912. Fantastic though. It is a call to pastor's to function as shepherds to their people, truly caring for them. In chapter 3 he speaks of the shepherd's oppurtunity today. He compares it modern medicine, in the idea that doctors generally do not deal with patients in large groups. Each patient has his own bed, with his own chart, his own blood pressure rates on there. Every respiration is noted, every movement, patient history, allergies and the such are recorded. Here's a snippet: "It is not by the spectacular and scenic methods that the death rate of great cities is reduced, but by the loving care of the one baby, the faithful nursing of the one patient who without this care and nursing would have died." The same is true of discipleship within the church. There is part of me that is drawn to large groups. And that seems to be the