Digital Discipleship. It’s the defining challenge of our age.
We often think of “discipleship” as a churchy-religious word, but whether or not we’re any kind of theist we’re all disciples of someone or something. And today, most of us are discipled by our screens.
My succinct definition of a disciple is someone who performs embodied practices in pursuit of a trusted authority.
We come to trust in someone, or something produced by someone. We decide, based on that trust, to do things with our bodies that embody our trust.
We can tell who we trust by the embodied practices we actually perform. What we do shows who or what we love. And if we spend 8+ hours a day consuming social media, video games, and streaming video, we’re certainly being discipled, formed, and shaped into a certain kind of person by those long, embodied practices.
All of this was the subject of one of my best conversations on Digital Discipleship with the amazingly winsome Caleb Gray from Perth, Australia. Caleb has a wonderful heart for Jesus and for everyone else, and his love permeates his insightful questions.
You can listen to our international conversation on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you enjoy podcasts.