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Discipleship Focus: Chemistry
- Chemistry asks whether the person in question can work with the other people that God has called.
Song of
Songs is going to be an unusual book of the Bible to look at through a
discipleship lens. Many of these blog
posts for the next few days may all sound similar. I’m going to try my best to not make it that
way, but this book is essentially a love poem between spouses. There is only so much that translates between
a love poem and the discipleship process.
One of
the things that I think does translate is this idea of chemistry. In discipleship, we want to make sure that we
can work with the people to whom God is calling us. In marriage, this idea is even stronger. When we consider things like dating,
engagement, and marriage, we need to be certain that we have the proper
chemistry with the people with whom we might be spending our life.
When we
read this chapter, we get the clear impression that these lovers want to be
around each other. They want to be in
each other’s company. They want to live
life together.
Obviously,
that’s how it should be in a marriage.
On a less intimate scale, that’s how it should be in Christian community
as well. We should want to be around
each other. We should want to be
partners in what God is doing in us and the people around us.
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