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Yoder on The Disciple of Christ and the Way of Jesus

I. The Disciple/Participant and the Love of God
A. Sharing the divine nature as the definition of Christian existence
B. Forgive as God has forgiven you
C. Love indiscriminately as God does

II. The Disciple/Participant and the Life of Christ
A. Being in Christ as the definition of Christian existence
B. Having died with Christ and sharing in his risen life
C. Loving as Christ loved, giving himself
D. Serving as he served
E. Subordination

III. The Disciple/Participant and the Death of Jesus
A. Suffering with Christ as the definition of apostolic existence
B. Sharing in divine condescension
C. Give your life as he did
D. Suffering servanthood in place of dominion
E. Accept innocent suffering without complaint as he did
F. Suffer with or like Christ the hostility of the world, as bearers of the kingdom cause
G. Death is liberation from the power of sin
H. Death is the fate of the prophets; Jesus whom we follow, was already following them
I. Death is victory

“This centering of the apostolic ethic on the disciple’s cross evidences a substantial, binding and sometimes costly social stance… [that is] the political, legally-to-be-expected moral clash with the powers ruling his society… [as] servanthood replace[s] dominion and forgiveness absorb[s] hostility. (The Politics of Jesus pgs. 127-131)”