It’s quite possible that many of us are struggling from “love fatigue.” No, not in the sense that we are burned out from relationships (although that may be true for you also). In this case, we’re talking about how we hear so much about the word “love” from so many different angles, including from religion, that we’re tired of hearing about it. It makes it hard for us to experience in a new or deeper way the kind of love that is talked about in the Bible and in the life of Jesus. And yet, Jesus and eventually his followers had grace–a specific kind of love–and love described in the “Great Commands” at the core of their lives. And this made all the difference. It can for us also. For week three of our series about our HEC Discipleship Essentials, we’re talking about grace and the Great Commands at the core.
A team at our church prayed and spent time discerning an answer to this question: If there was a committed, fruitful, flourishing apprentice of Jesus in our midst, how would we know it? What grew out of those meetings are what we call our HEC Discipleship Essentials. In this series, we're diving into those so that we gain clarity about what discipleship is really about and so that we live into the kind of life that Jesus promises.