Ep 4: Foundations, Formation, and the Missing Framework Part 2

The Bible, as we know it, is the living and active will of God being carried out across the past, present, and future. It is eternal. Consider again Jesus’ words concerning the Law: “These are the words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, that all things must be fulfilled which were written in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms concerning Me.” Then “He opened their understanding, that they might comprehend the Scriptures.”

Few of us have come to recognize Jesus as the Messiah and as our Lord and Savior through this depth of study and realization. This is not how faith is typically formed in our modern approach—and this is why we so often fail at what we call Christianity. Without a true understanding of Christ, there is no Christianity. You cannot follow what does not truly exist. And if what we are following is incomplete—built on the foundations of incomplete understanding—then what, in fact, do we have?

We’re asking hard questions: Have we confused emotional decisions with deep formation? And what if the original disciples weren’t blank slates, but biblically literate men immersed in Scripture? Let’s reimagine discipleship the way Jesus actually modeled it.