The Pyromaniacs Blog has been discussing discipleship recently. The following two paragraphs are from a current blog post by Dan Phillips. Read them and I assume you will want to read the rest at the link above.
A disciple never feels he knows his Bible well enough. A
disciple knows that he is on a learning-curve that literally has no upper
extremity. A disciple never forgets that God has expectations, that
privilege obliges, that he is morally obligated to be heading to the point where
he himself both practices and can explain the deeper truths of God (Heb. 5:11-14). Further, he
is vividly aware that it was failure to advance in just such a way that gave
birth to one of the most terrifying passages of Scripture (Heb. 6:1ff.).
"I will never need to know that" is the thought of a non-disciple. It means,
"This doesn't interest me right now, so I won't make any effort to strengthen my
grasp of what the Word says about it." It signals a willful ignorance of the
implications of passages such as Prov. 2:1, that wisdom requires that we
treasure up what we are taught right now, even though the application may
not be right now. The disciple is like the hardworking, forward-looking
ant (Prov. 6:8), not like the
aimless sluggard (Prov. 20:4).
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