Apprentices unite

What is happening in your apprenticeship? Are you growing or shrinking in your faith, your skills for caring for others, your willingness to risk loving other people?

Contrary to the way most people practice their faith, Jesus never intended for us to learn how to be faithful by the discovery method. The idea was not to learn by sending all his disciples out into the wilderness and leaving them their to survive or wilt on their own.

He said he wanted disciples, apprentices to learn faith and living faith from being with him and the other disciples! Faith is not a solitary activity. It is to be done in a community with other faithful people; other faithful people who are trying to raise kids, trying to have great marriages, trying to figure out how to get kids to college, trying to understand retirement, living and dying, growing and growing old together.

So how are you doing with your apprenticeship?

Have you learned anything new? Have you shared your insight with someone who loves you with God's love. Have you intentionally gotten together with other disciples just to share the everyday stuff to see what God is doing with your everyday stuff?

Maybe it's time to not go it alone. Maybe it's time to be part of something larger than yourself.