9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
A Classic of Christian Principals, 2002-05-17
J Oswald Sanders brings us a delight and challenging book on what it means to be a Disciple or biblical Christian. Sanders brings to life the challenges and standards that Jesus has for out lives. He blends faith, wisdom, and examples for Christian history to help guide people back to the calling of Christ. Christianity hasn't failed because of its own flaws, but because of a lack of commitment. Sanders challenges his readers to renew the commitment and fire that turned the world upside down 2000 years ago. I've read this one over and over, and still love. A must read for anyone who wants to know why God gave us the Holy Spirit.
14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
The Holocaust of Spiritual Wisdom, 2000-07-30
Oswald Sanders was a missionary in Far East Asia, and field director of the Overseas Missionary Fellowship for many years. This book, Spiritual Discipleship,is one in a series of three on serious discipleship. The other two are Spiritual Maturity, and Spiritual Leadership (which Chuck Colson said was the best book on Christian leadership that he has read).For Christians who have been demoralized by the shallow and superfluous popular "fluff" that abounds on the topic of discipleship, this series will come as cool water in a desert. Sanders deals with the brutal struggles in discipleship, and makes it clear there is no spiritual growth without a price. If we are not willing to pay the price--we will not grow towards maturity. As Oswald Sanders said during a series on dispcipleship at Gull Lake Bible Conference, "There are spiritual Christians, and there are unspiritual Christians. And most are unspiritual."
This kind of brutal language needs to be revived, in an age in which most Americans confuse Christian discipleship with self-help or self-optimization. In reality, the gate is still narrow, and the path hard, which leads to life (Matthew 7:14).
5 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
It was the best book ever everyone has to read., 1999-11-09
This past summer I worked at a Bible Camp and our theme for the summer was Carry your Cross. For staff training we all got the same book and had to read it and it was Spirital Disipel ship and then we had to split up into small groups and we discused the reading and we whent over the questions and it was aswem becuse I was in a group with a guy from my school that I didn't know well and never talked to because were in different grades. Well being in his group was awsome because he was very very smart and he new a lot about God and about the book. I enjoyed the book a lot becuase It brought up very good conversations with my fellow workers and we could sit and talk about what we read for hours so I encurage everyone to read this book that hasn't and if you have read it they should keep reading it over and over again becaue it will make you a much stronger Christian and a lot closer to God. You'll also learn a lot of stuff you don't know that you should know. So pick up the book today and start reading the day it arives. Andrea Rise a 17 year old 11th grade student in a very small town in Minnesota called Halstad.