[This post is a follow-up to last week’s post entitled:Why Abstinence Isn’t Working In America. I would encourage you to read that one (before this one) if you haven’t already. I think you’ll benefit from the background that post (and the numerous comments) will offer in setting up this post.]

It seems that many of you who read and commented on last week’s post felt good about the premise of celibacy – especially as it relates to the shortcomings of abstinence – but still questioned how celibacy “looked” when lived out. In a couple of my responses I alluded to a life of discipleship…. And you responded with, “yes, but…”

And that’s where I want to begin today.

Discipleship – at its core – is the same today as it’s always been. It’s about following Jesus. Radically. Unequivocally. Above all else. Counting the cost and committing your life to it.

But that kind of life – that kind of disciplined, self-sacrificing, Kingdom-oriented life – looks foreign in our 21^st Century America. It sounds “old-fashioned”… and uninteresting.

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Click here to read the rest of this article. It’s a guest post I contributed to a new resource out of Asbury Theological Seminary and the United Methodist Church called Seedbed.