KAJIAN TEOLOGIS MURID YANG MEMURIDKAN BERDASARKAN 2 TIMOTIUS 2:1-2

Abstrak Pemuridan adalah harga mati dari seorang murid Yesus. Murid Yesus yang sejati harus menghasilkan murid lainnya bagi Yesus. Pola pemuridan yang benar dan efektif yang diteladankan Yesus, dan dicontoh Rasul Paulus dalam pelayanan dan kehidupannya yang dalam 2 Timotius 1:2 dipercayakan dan diwariskan kepada Timotius untuk diteruskan kepada generasi murid-murid Yesus terus sampai kesudahan akhir zaman sungguh terbukti ampuh. Metode dalam penelitian ini menggunakan metode kualitatif dengan pendekatan studi pustaka melalui buku-buku dan artikel-artikel yang berkualitas dalam membahas pemuridan Kristen. Hasil dari penelitian ini disimpulkan bahwa implikasi kehidupan yang bermakna dari seorang murid Kristus yang memuridkan lagi yang harus nyata diperagakan dalam kehidupan kekristenannya sebagai pribadi dan gereja sebagai kehidupan komunitas murid-murid Yesus, yaitu: Pertama, Tetap tinggal di dalam Kristus. Kedua, Hidup dengan tujuan menghasilkan buah. Ketiga, Memiliki hasrat untuk regenerasi dan pelipatgandaan murid. Keempat, Meneladani Yesus yang memuridkan murid. Kelima, Gereja dan pemimpin rohani yang memuridkan. Keenam, Menjadikan pemuridan sebagai gaya hidup. Abstract Discipleship is the fixed price of a disciple of Jesus. A true disciple of Jesus must produce other disciples for Jesus. The pattern of true and effective discipleship that Jesus imitated, and was imitated by the Apostle Paul in his ministry and life which in 2 Timothy 1:2 was entrusted and passed on to Timothy to be passed on to generations of Jesus' disciples until the end of the age had really proven effective. The method in this study uses a qualitative method with a literature study approach through quality books and articles in discussing Christian discipleship. The results of this study conclude that the implications of a meaningful life of a disciple of Christ who make disciples again that must be manifested in his Christian life as a person and the church as a community life of Jesus' disciples, namely: First, Remain in Christ. Second, live with the aim of producing fruit. Third, have a desire to regenerate and multiply disciples. Fourth, Imitate Jesus who made disciples. Fifth, the Church and spiritual leaders who make disciples. Sixth, Make discipleship a lifestyle.

Implementasi Pemuridan Kristen Dalam Keluarga di Era Disrupsi

Abstrak: Keluarga merupakan dasar dan tempat utama pemuridan Kristen untuk mewujudkan pertumbuhan rohani anak-anak Kristen agar siap menghadapi tantangan kehidupan di era disrupsi seperti saat ini. Menggunakan pendekatan kualitatif deskriptif dengan metode studi literature. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menjawab pertanyaan penelitian tentang bagaimana implementasi pemuridan Kristen di dalam keluarga di era disrupsi saat ini. Hasil penelitian menyimpulkan bawah pemuridan Kristen dalam keluarga di era disrupsi merupakan hal yang esensial dan krusial. Orang tua berperan penting melakukan pemuridan Kristen dalam keluarga untuk mendidik dan mengarahkan anak-anak Kristen menjadi generasi yang konsisten dan bertumbuh dalam iman kepada Tuhan dan menjadi murid Kristus yang sejati. Menjadi dewasa dalam kepribadian, kerohanian dan moralitas sehingga tidak mudah terjerumus ke dalam aspek negative dari perkembangan teknologi informasi digital saat ini. Dibutuhkan komitmen dan konsistensi dalam implementasi pemuridan Kristen dalam keluarga di era disrupsi untuk menghindari distraksi atau disrupsi dari berbagai informasi media digital yang ada, sebaliknya harus menyediakan waktu yang khusus untuk melakukan pemuridan dengan memanfaatkan perkembangan digitalisasi teknologi informasi di era disrupsi secara positif. Salah satunya melakukan pemuridan keluarga secara virtual. Dengan demikian pemuridan Kristen dalam keluarga tetap dapat dilakukan walaupun orang tua dan anak terpisah jarak dan tempat.Abstract: The family is the basis and the main place for Christian discipleship to realize the spiritual growth of Christian children so that they are ready to face the challenges of life in this era of disruption. Using a descriptive qualitative approach with a literature study method. This study aims to answer research questions about how to implement Christian discipleship in families in the current era of disruption. The results of this study conclude that Christian discipleship in families in the era of disruption is essential and crucial. Parents play an important role in carrying out Christian discipleship in the family to educate and direct Christian children to become a generation that is consistent and grows the faith in God and becomes the true disciples of Christ. Become mature in personality, spirituality and morality so that it is not easy to fall into the negative aspects of the development of digital information technology today. It takes commitment and consistency in the implementation of Christian discipleship in families in the era of disruption to avoid distraction or disruption from various existing digital media information, on the contrary, must provide special time for discipleship by utilizing the development of digitalization of information technology in the era of disruption in a positive way. One of them is doing virtual family discipleship. Thus, Christian discipleship in the family can still be done even though parents and children are separated by distance and place.

A Critical Investigation into the Role of Widows in Early Church Life

A critical question to be asked in the modern world is whether or not women should have leadership roles in churches. Saint Paul teaches us that we should have a vision of a church that is unified and which embraces diversity. When he discusses the various gifts of grace within the church in Ephesians (4:11), he is by no means suggesting that the roles of the gifted are linked to gender. It is however also clear from the holy scriptures that no woman was selected to be an apostle. Nonetheless, the Eastern Orthodox Church recognizes that there were a number of woman who were equal in status to the apostles, inter-alia, Saint Helena and Saint Mary Magdalene. In the Graeco-Roman world of New Testament Palestine, religion operated in a highly paternalistic and patriarchal society in which there was often much debate on issues of sexuality and the belief that women per se were not suitable to serve in ecclesial roles was commonplace. When it came to widows however, they enjoyed somewhat of a special status and were able to serve in a particular manner which was deemed to be acceptable. The widows in the early Church provide a thought-provoking Christian character, which springs from their innate desire to do good deeds and from their austere practices that point to solid Christian discipleship even though they functioned honorifically. This article investigates what the Didascalia Apostolorum has to say concerning the status and function of widows in early church life. The Order of Widows which existed in the early Church decayed in importance at the advent of the fourth century, as numerous of its functions were adopted by deaconesses. If we accept that human beings have natures which are created in the imageo Dei, then women are invariably equal in their humanity to men. Why is it then that they are precluded from serving as priests or other ecclesial orders in various denominations? A historical-critical methodology was employed in this brief study making use of literature emanating from academic journals, theological books, early church documents and a range of online sources. This article hopefully enables the reader to develop a great understanding of early Christian widows as consecrated women, serving the Church and God.

Christian Calling and the Ideal of Martyrdom in the Real World

Setting just war reasoning into its broader context, this chapter begins by examining the logic, weight, and dangers of the “realist” traditions of Christian ethics, especially Augustine, Niebuhr, and Bonhoeffer (one often acclaimed as martyr though implicated in violent resistance). It shows how Protestant theologies of “vocation” typically sanction the sword-bearing occupations of magistrate, soldier, and law enforcement official as potentially consistent with Christian discipleship and holiness. Recent discussions of “moral injury” in soldiers are considered in relation to this “calling” of sword-bearing for the common good. In dialogue with Roman Catholicism, the chapter elaborates a Protestant conception of sainthood that acknowledges the ambiguity of the world, a conception that occasions a return to the criteria identifying Christian martyrdom.

Envisioning a Just Response to the Catholic Clergy Sexual Abuse Crisis

In this article, I argue that the only way Catholics will experience the conversion of heart necessary to engage in authentic Christian discipleship and respond justly to the clergy sexual abuse crisis is to enter empathetically into the traumatic reality of the crisis. Recognition of the degree to which clergy abuse harms victim-survivors and subverts the church’s purpose to be the body of Christ leads to the moral obligation to prioritize urgent action on two objectives: (1) solidarity with clergy sexual abuse survivors and (2) effective prevention of clergy sexual abuse globally.

Giving up privilege: A sermon on Philippians 2:5–11

The hymn in Phil 2:5–11, which may be the earliest statement about Jesus’s death on the cross, omits typical concepts of substitutionary atonement. This hymn sees the cross within the story that Jesus gave up the privilege of divinity to become human and offers a fresh way to see the intersection of Jesus’s death and Christian discipleship. Feminist and womanist theologians have rightly criticized substitutionary atonement, because the powerful inevitably place the message of sacrifice and suffering upon women and the marginalized. The hymn, however, speaks not of sacrifice and suffering, but of God’s willingness to give up privilege to create solidarity. For those with privilege to be of the same mind that was in Christ Jesus (v. 5), they must choose not to exploit that advantage, but to empty themselves of it and collectively create atonement through solidarity with one another.

Paul’s Teachings on the Uniqueness and Supremacy of Christ in Colossians 1: 12-23 and Its Implications for Christianity in Africa

This article examines Paul’s teaching on the uniqueness and supremacy of Christ and its implications for Christianity in Africa. The approach is analytical or qualitative. The historical-critical method and contextual tools are used in the interpretation of the biblical text. The study reveals that Christianity in Africa shares similar threats of heresy to that of the Church at Colossae which, of course, holds implications for Christianity in Africa such as: that Christ must be a living reality in one’s life without which he/she is not worth being classified as a Christian, that the one professing to be a Christian must not only be rooted in Christ but must be built up in Him as well, that Christians in Africa should realize that when believers are part of the body of which Christ is the head, there is no need to fear or manipulate any other spiritual beings, that subjugated powers cannot harm the person who is in Christ for their ultimate overthrow in the future is assured, that Christians in Africa have no cause to pay homage to any lesser supernatural beings, that Christians are not to follow ceremonies, rituals, initiations and restrictions in order to be saved, that Christians in Africa must not obtain secret or acquire an exoteric knowledge in order to be saved or be liberated from the clutches of evil powers, and that they should shun combining aspects of several religions given that they have everything since they have Christ. This, therefore, spells the need to take Christian discipleship very seriously in African Churches.

Awakening Christian Discipleship: Gleanings from an Experiment in Interreligious Education

Through autoethnographic research, this article argues that interreligious education is integral to Christian discipleship and that living in a multi-religious world demands more than knowledge of the religious other. To live fully into a Christian identity in a multi-religious world demands interreligious education.

Transhumanism and the Image of God. Today’s Technology and the Future of Christian Discipleship

SUMMARYWhat does it mean for Christians to live in a highly technologised world? In this book, Jacob Shatzer searches for an answer. First, Christians have to answer these crucial questions: What is technology? What is its impact on our lives and on the world? Second, Shatzer gives some key indicators and guiding principles, framed in terms of Christian discipleship. This is a clear and useful book.RÉSUMÉQu’implique pour les chrétiens de vivre dans un monde où la technologie est omniprésente ? Jacob Shatzer tente de répondre à cette question. Tout d’abord, les chrétiens doivent s’interroger sur la nature de la technologie et sur l’impact des produits des techniques sur notre vie et sur le monde. Puis il propose des indicateurs clés et des principes directeurs, en vue d’une vie de disciple chrétien.ZUSAMMENFASSUNGWas bedeutet es für Christen, in einer hoch technologisierten Welt zu leben? In diesem Buch sucht Jacob Shatzer nach einer Antwort. Zuerst müssen Christen diese wichtigen Fragen beantworten: Was ist Technologie? Was macht ihren Einfluss auf unser Leben und unsere Welt aus? Zweitens gibt der Autor einige Schlüsselindikatoren und Richtlinien im Rahmen christlicher Jüngerschaft. Dies stellt ein klares und hilfreiches Book dar.