Discipleship
Heinrich Arnold
Perhaps the hardest thing about following Christ is translating our good intentions into deeds. Christ calls us, and we yearn to answer him, but time and again we lose resolve. Is discipleship possible amid the stresses of modern life? Can Christ bring about lasting change in our lives? How can we be
centred on him, when everything seems to pull us apart?
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Praise for Discipleship
Dale Aukerman
Author
of 'Reckoning with Apocalypse'
In a masterful way, J. Heinrich Arnold brings
together the evangelical offer of God’s forgiving mercy and the
radical claims of Jesus for total self-giving in discipleship.
Arnold writes that “the greatest gift is a burning love to Christ.”
That love pervades this book.
David Bercot
Author of 'The Pilgrim Road
One of the best books on discipleship that has
come out in years…It is filled with keen insights on what it really
means to love God with your whole soul and to love your neighbour as
yourself. Reads like a twentieth-century version of The Imitation
of Christ.
Anthony Campolo
Eastern College
Discipleship helps us to understand
what spiritual goodness is all about…reading it provides a mystic
nurturing of the soul that will translate into social action
— action that makes for justice in
the world.
Jimmy Carter
Former President, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
I have found Discipleship to be an
incisive and inspirational Christian guidebook. It is a clear call
to higher religious ideals.
Lawrence Carter
Morehouse College, Atlanta
Discipleship is the best single
reference I have found outside of scripture on commitment to an
authentic Christian community.
Elisabeth Elliot
Speaker and author
I have been very impressed with Arnold’s work,
and find it thoroughly scriptural and very practical—right down my
alley.
Richard T. McSorley, S.J.
Georgetown University
Anyone interested in union with God in his
daily life will find Discipleship valuable. Along with The
Imitation of Christ and the sacred Scriptures themselves, Arnold’s
writings are a treasure from which flows a spring of living water
to nourish the soul.
Don
Mosley
Jubilee Partners
Reading Discipleship is like panning for gold
near the mother lode; there are nuggets everywhere…
What strikes
me over and over is the sense of down-to-earth authenticity that
shines through Arnold’s words. These words obviously come from a
storehouse full of experiences. There is nothing tentative or
theoretical about them. And they are full of love.
Mother
Teresa of Calcutta
I pray for all who read this book that they
may come to follow Jesus more closely in their whole lives. He has
not called us to be successful, but to be faithful.
Henri J.
M. Nouwen
L'Arche Daybreak
Discipleship is a prophetic book in a time in
which few people dare to speak unpopular but truly healing words.
Cardinal
Joseph O’Connor
Archdiocese of New York
Discipleship is a clear call to greater
conviction and faith. Readers who open their hearts to the witness
of this book will be challenged and inspired.
Spencer
Perkins
Urban Family Magazine
Discipleship may contain more basic truth than
some can handle. But for those who understand that following Jesus
means swimming against the stream of popular culture, it will be a
source of strength and sustenance.
Helen
Prejean, C.S.J.
Author, Dead Man Walking
Discipleship is not simply a book. It is a cry
from the heart of a man passionately alive for God and the work of
God. Arnold’s words blow on the simmering coals of our hearts and
set us on fire for Christ.
Dale
Recinella
The Jesus Journal
Arnold’s insights into the Gospel and into the
roots of our emptiness efficiently and precisely address what is
lacking in the church today…This is no high-minded treatise on the
theology of “discipleship.” It is a hands-on manual for the trench
warfare of the living Gospel.
Trevor
Saxby
Author, Pilgrims of the Common Life
Here is no smug Christian triumphalism, no
cold theory…this is theology with a beating heart, a spirituality
that is marked with the flowing humanity of Jesus. Arnold writes as
one who has prayed, wept, and struggled through the issues of being
a radical Christian today…He meets people where they are, and longs
to join them together. I commend his book wholeheartedly.
Ronald
J. Sider
Evangelicals for Social Action
Few things are more important today than the
call to contemporary Christians to rediscover Jesus’ costly call to
holiness, obedience, and discipleship. Only then can we resist the
seductions of surrounding society. I hope and pray this book will
be heard.
Bishop
Walter Sullivan
Pax Christi USA
Simple, challenging…merits consideration
because it is rooted in real-life experience. I recommend it,
especially for women and men who are willing to risk responding to
the call “Come, follow me.”
Sue
Elkins
BBC Radio Derby
This is one of those books which is simple to
read but conveys profound and very challenging ideas.
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