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Episode Synopsis
Do you know what discipleship is? What do you picture when you think of it? Does discipleship really matter at all?
These are the questions Renee Walters (whom I am so lucky to call my best friend) answers in today's podcast. Renee is a professional dancer with the Dallas Black Dance Theater, where she lives out her calling to bring light to the dance world and racial reconciliation to her community.
Renee has been a model for discipleship years before I understood the importance of walking it out by building deep relationships in a faithful Christian community and taking the time to regularly study the Bible in small gatherings of two or three people.
I totally missed this because I thought "don't you just have to believe in Jesus?" As it turns out, being a "believer" is much different than living the committed, transformed life of a "disciple." In essence, BELIEF is much different taking faithful action to live out that beliefs.
"Make DISCIPLES" is right there in The Great Commission in Matthew 28:18-20:
Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make *disciples* of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”
In this episode, you'll hear Renee talk about:
Her story of how dancing and her faith in Jesus developed and ultimately came together from childhood until now
Stories from the beginning of our friendship in high school and the surprising ways we influenced each other
How being introduced to a tight-knit community of disciples transformed her walk with God
A kick in the tushy for those asking - my faith is private, why do I have to find a community?
How seeking to understand other people's narratives (especially in marginalized communities) and going out of your way to love those around you is something God calls all of us to do
POWERFUL QUOTES:
"You cannot lead a life of faith in isolation."
"If you're in the majority, you can't truly understand the narrative of the minority, but that is not at all a cop out to not SEEK to understand."
“You can’t understand your calling and the individual purposes God has for you if you don’t FIRST understand the calling God has for all of his children (the call to faith, the call to disciple one another).”
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⚡️Apply for Career Coaching:
Schedule a free, 30 min consultation with me to assess how career coaching can help you identify your true calling and land the exact job that will pay you to fulfill it:
Learn more and apply at thecalledcareer.com
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👯♀️Let’s Connect!
Website // thecalledcareer.com
Instagram // @kelsey_thecalledcareer
LinkedIn // www.linkedin.com/in/kelsey-janna-kemp
These are the questions Renee Walters (whom I am so lucky to call my best friend) answers in today's podcast. Renee is a professional dancer with the Dallas Black Dance Theater, where she lives out her calling to bring light to the dance world and racial reconciliation to her community.
Renee has been a model for discipleship years before I understood the importance of walking it out by building deep relationships in a faithful Christian community and taking the time to regularly study the Bible in small gatherings of two or three people.
I totally missed this because I thought "don't you just have to believe in Jesus?" As it turns out, being a "believer" is much different than living the committed, transformed life of a "disciple." In essence, BELIEF is much different taking faithful action to live out that beliefs.
"Make DISCIPLES" is right there in The Great Commission in Matthew 28:18-20:
Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make *disciples* of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”
In this episode, you'll hear Renee talk about:
Her story of how dancing and her faith in Jesus developed and ultimately came together from childhood until now
Stories from the beginning of our friendship in high school and the surprising ways we influenced each other
How being introduced to a tight-knit community of disciples transformed her walk with God
A kick in the tushy for those asking - my faith is private, why do I have to find a community?
How seeking to understand other people's narratives (especially in marginalized communities) and going out of your way to love those around you is something God calls all of us to do
POWERFUL QUOTES:
"You cannot lead a life of faith in isolation."
"If you're in the majority, you can't truly understand the narrative of the minority, but that is not at all a cop out to not SEEK to understand."
“You can’t understand your calling and the individual purposes God has for you if you don’t FIRST understand the calling God has for all of his children (the call to faith, the call to disciple one another).”
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⚡️Apply for Career Coaching:
Schedule a free, 30 min consultation with me to assess how career coaching can help you identify your true calling and land the exact job that will pay you to fulfill it:
Learn more and apply at thecalledcareer.com
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👯♀️Let’s Connect!
Website // thecalledcareer.com
Instagram // @kelsey_thecalledcareer
LinkedIn // www.linkedin.com/in/kelsey-janna-kemp
In God we trust