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The fourth relationship is with fellow believers and involves “serving in love,” which helps a Christian to “experience authentic community.”

This assessment, Ingram stressed, involves values that include both “strengths and weaknesses,” as well as “different gifts” to serve the church. “’I want you not to think that you’re better than other people, I don’t want you to think “I’m worthless, I’m no good.” I want you to think of yourself the way I think of you.’” “God says, ‘I want you to think accurately, soberly,’” he continued. The third relationship, the one about the self, Ingram said Christians should be “sober” in their self-assessments, warning against thinking too high or low of oneself. “Jesus said, ‘you cannot be My disciple unless you love Me more than father, mother, and brothers and sisters.’”Ī contrast was the next relationship, the one with the world, which Ingram said involves “being separate from the world.” To justify this, Ingram quoted Romans 12:2, which says in part “do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world …” When it comes to a relationship with God, Ingram said God “wants you, all of you,” and warned that “if you’re not completely surrendered in every area of your life, you will not experience God’s power.”

“It’s not all there is on what a disciple is, but in a measurable, practical, grace-oriented way, going to define your relationship with God, the world, yourself, believers, and unbelievers.” “This is the Reader’s Digest version, this is the Cliff’s Notes, this is the Instagram picture of what a disciple is in summary,” Ingram said. Speaking at the Southern Evangelical Seminary’s 26th annual National Conference on Christian Apologetics in Charlotte, North Carolina, over the weekend, Ingram explained that Romans 12 lays out five relationships that are integral to Christian discipleship: a relationship with God, a relationship with the world, a relationship with oneself, a relationship with believers, and a relationship with nonbelievers. | Facebook/Southern Evangelical SeminaryĬhip Ingram, apologist and president of Living on the Edge, says there are five relationships that are key to proper Christian discipleship.

11-12, 2019 at Calvary Church in Charlotte, North Carolina. Apologist Chip Ingram giving remarks at Southern Evangelical Seminary's 26th annual National Conference on Christian Apologetics, held Oct.