3.1-GROWING IN DISCIPLESHIP

Missio: “act of sending”

  • apostle - “someone who is sent”

  • disciple - originally referred to pupil or learner, but in Christianity, it mean the follower of Jesus

Morality Development

Pre-conventional morality

Stage 1: Obedience and Punishment

  • doing what is right because of the fear of punishment

Stage 2: Individualism and Exchange

  • doing what is right for personal gain or reward

Conventional Morality

Stage 3: Developing Good Interpersonal Relationships

  • doing what is right to be judged as good

Stage 4: Maintaining Social Order

  • doing what is right because it is your duty and helps society

Post-Conventional Morality

Stage 5: Social Contracts and Individual Rights

  • doing what is right even though it goes against the law because the law is restrictive or violate someone’s rights

Stage 6: Universal Principles

  • doing what is right because of universal ethical principles(justice)

Stages of Faith Development

Primal or undifferentiated faith

  • 0-2 years old

  • Children start building trust, courage, hope, and love through their parents and other adults

Intuitive-Projective Faith

  • 3-7 years old

  • faith comes from experiences, stories, images, and the people that the child comes in contact with

Mythic-Literal Faith

  • 8-12 years old

  • child is sorting from make-believe and the real

  • child’s religious authority/ faith starts to expand

Synthetic-Conventional Faith

  • 13-18 years old

  • believer conform to religious authority

  • Embrace a set of beliefs which seems to be the norms of the religious community

  • most people stay at this stage their entire life

Individualitive - Reflective Faith

  • 18-22 years old

  • people start to question their own assumptions aoround the faith tradition and take personal responsibilities for their beliefs and feelings

  • people also start to question the authority structures of their faith

Conjunctive Faith

  • 30 or mid-life crisis

  • the struggle of questioning stage 4 gives way for a more comfortable place

  • some answers have been found and the person is comfortable knowing not all answers can be answered immediately

  • they approach faith with an inclusive way

Universalizing Faith

  • very rare for a person to reach this stage

  • committing their total being to help the helpless in a radical way and puts their safety at risk

  • they treat any person with compassion as they are fueled by the universal principles of love, justice, and brotherhood

Discipleship is a Journey

Imitating the Jesus of Nazareth

  • Moral development stage

Live Jesus in our Hearts Forever!

  • Reminds us to internalize Jesus’s spirit and virtues so that our heats may resemble his

  • challenges us to be Christ-like in every possible way