'It is difficult to be a disciple in the post modern world.' Do you agree, give reasons for your answer, showing you have considered more than one point of view?

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Discipleship Assignment

‘It is difficult to be a disciple in the post modern world.’  Do you agree, give reasons for your answer, showing you have considered more than one point of view?

I agree with the statement above because just as it was hard for the rich man to rise to the challenge and give all his riches to the poor it is hard for Christians today to rise to the challenge of building the Kingdom and all that entails.

What makes it even harder for people to be a disciple today is all the choices, consumerism, media, and materialism.  With all this around it is very hard for anyone to be single minded.  Jesus once said in Mark 8: 34, ‘…“If anyone wants to come with me…he must forget self, carry his cross, and follow me.”’  If you want to follow Jesus’ explain you have to ‘forget self, this is what the media, materialism and consumerism hopes you can do, because if you can do this then media, materialism and consumerism should no longer be a problem.  An excellent example of the consumerism that is everywhere in the postmodern world  is there are1500 different types of bottled water.  Water being the source of life should not be sold as a fashion item, rather it should given to those who need it most.

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The simplest tasked of being a Christian is now getting harder, such as going to church on Sunday.  In the last ten years the shops have been opening on Sundays.  This may not be an obvious problem and many would think that if you didn’t want to shop on Sunday you wouldn’t have to.  If you consider all the staff, they don’t have any real choice of whether they work Sunday or not, then it does become a problem.  Going to church on Sunday is the base of our religion and if we fail to do this as a ...

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