0702 作门徒的条件
人到我这里来，若不爱我胜过爱自己的父母、妻子、儿女、弟兄、姐妹和自己的性命，就不能做我的门徒。凡不背着自己的十字架跟从我的，也不能作我的门徒。…这样，你们无论什么人，若不撇下一切所有的，就不能作为我的门徒。《路加福音 14:26-27, 33》
如果门徒生命中最亲密的关系与耶稣基督的主张发生冲突，那么我们的主就要求他立即顺服祂自己。门徒职分意味着对某一位——我们的主耶稣基督——个人的、热情的奉献。对一个人的奉献与对原则或事业的奉献之间存在巨大的区别。我们的主从未宣扬一项事业——祂宣扬对祂自己的个别奉献。成为门徒就是被主耶稣的爱所激发而成为忠诚的爱奴。我们中许多自称为基督徒的人并没有真正献身忠于耶稣基督。世上无人对主耶稣有如此的热爱，除非圣灵赐给他那份爱。我们可以钦佩、尊敬和敬畏祂，但我们不能凭自己来爱祂。唯一真正爱主耶稣的就是圣灵，正是祂「将神的爱浇灌在我们心里」（罗马书5:5）。每当圣灵看到通过你荣耀耶稣的机会，祂就会接管你整个人，并使你燃起对耶稣基督的热情奉献。
基督徒的生命是以真实和自发的创造力为特征的生活。因此，门徒受到与耶稣基督同样的指控，即我们是不一致的指控。但耶稣基督在与神的关系中始终是一致的，基督徒也必须与在他里面神儿子的生命的关系中一致，而不是与严格、不屈服的教义相一致。人们倾全力于他们自己的教义，而神必须将他们从先入为主的观念中炸出来，然后他们才能变得忠于耶稣基督。
来自章伯斯的智慧
神创造人类，让他成为地上、海里和空中生命之主，而他之所以不是，是因为他擅自掌握律法，成为自己的主，但却不是其他之主。 《痛苦的阴影》
0702 The Conditions of Discipleship
If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and his own life also…. And whoever does not bear his cross and come after Me….So likewise, whoever of you does not forsake all that he has cannot be My disciple. —Luke 14:26-27, 33
If the closest relationships of a disciple’s life conflict with the claims of Jesus Christ, then our Lord requires instant obedience to Himself. Discipleship means personal, passionate devotion to a Person— our Lord Jesus Christ. There is a vast difference between devotion to a person and devotion to principles or to a cause. Our Lord never proclaimed a cause— He proclaimed personal devotion to Himself. To be a disciple is to be a devoted bondservant motivated by love for the Lord Jesus. Many of us who call ourselves Christians are not truly devoted to Jesus Christ. No one on earth has this passionate love for the Lord Jesus unless the Holy Spirit has given it to him. We may admire, respect, and revere Him, but we cannot love Him on our own. The only One who truly loves the Lord Jesus is the Holy Spirit, and it is He who has “poured out in our hearts” the very “love of God” (Romans 5:5). Whenever the Holy Spirit sees an opportunity to glorify Jesus through you, He will take your entire being and set you ablaze with glowing devotion to Jesus Christ.
The Christian life is a life characterized by true and spontaneous creativity. Consequently, a disciple is subject to the same charge that was leveled against Jesus Christ, namely, the charge of inconsistency. But Jesus Christ was always consistent in His relationship to God, and a Christian must be consistent in his relationship to the life of the Son of God in him, not consistent to strict, unyielding doctrines. People pour themselves into their own doctrines, and God has to blast them out of their preconceived ideas before they can become devoted to Jesus Christ.
WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
God created man to be master of the life in the earth and sea and sky, and the reason he is not is because he took the law into his own hands, and became master of himself, but of nothing else. The Shadow of an Agony, 1163 L