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Throughout the Old Testament and into the New, God not only demands righteousness from his people but also showers on grace that enables them to act. Jesus, of course, provides the ultimate fulfillment of these twin aspects of God’s relationship to humanity. In biblical terms, Jesus is the King who demands righteous obedience from his followers, and Jesus is the Servant who provides the grace that enables this obedience. So what does it mean to follow Jesus? What does God expect from his followers, and how can they be and do what is required? Jonathan Lunde answers these and other questions in his sweeping biblical study on discipleship. He surveys God’s interaction with his people from Eden to Jesus, paying special attention to the biblical covenants that illuminate the character and plans of God. He offers Bible students and teachers―such as pastors, missionaries, and lay leaders―the gift of practical biblical teaching rooted in the Bible’s witness on the vital topic of discipleship.
- Sales Rank: #584015 in Books
- Brand: HarperCollins Christian Pub.
- Published on: 2010-11-27
- Released on: 2010-11-27
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.13" h x .87" w x 7.36" l, 1.15 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 320 pages
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Throughout the Old Testament and into the New, God not only demands righteousness from his people but also showers on grace that enables them to act. Jesus, of course, provides the ultimate fulfillment of these twin aspects of God's relationship to humanity. In biblical terms, Jesus is the King who demands righteous obedience from his followers, and Jesus is the Servant who provides the grace that enables this obedience. So what does it mean to follow Jesus? What does God expect from his followers, and how can they be and do what is required? Jonathan Lunde answers these and other questions in his sweeping biblical study on discipleship. He surveys God's interaction with his people from Eden to Jesus, paying special attention to the biblical covenants that illuminate the character and plans of God. He offers Bible students and teachers---such as pastors, missionaries, and lay leaders---the gift of practical biblical teaching rooted in the Bible's witness on the vital topic of discipleship.
About the Author
Jonathan Lunde (PhD, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School) is associate professor of biblical and theological studies at Talbot School of Theology of Biola University. He is coeditor (with Kenneth Berding) of Three Views on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament and has contributed articles to The Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels and the New Dictionary of Biblical Theology. Jon and his wife, Pamela, have three children and reside in Brea, California.
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful.
A fresh perspective on discipleship
By Marcus Maher
Following Jesus, the Servant King: A Biblical Theology of Covenantal Discipleship (Biblical Theology for Life)is a new book out by Jonathan Lunde, Professor at Talbot School of Theology. This is just the second book in Zondervan's Biblical Theology for Life Series, the first being The Mission of God's People: A Biblical Theology of the Church's Mission by Christopher Wright. The goal of the series is to bring serious academic biblical theology to bear in a practical way on contemporary questions. Lunde's work tackles the topic of discipleship. His definition of discipleship is,
...learning to receive and respond to God's grace and demand, which are mediated through Jesus, the Servant King, so as to reflect God's character in relation to him, to others, and to the world, in order that all may come to experience this same grace and respond to this same demand (276).
This definition comes after carefully examining three key questions:
Why: Why should I be concerned to obey all of Jesus' commands if I have been saved by grace?
What: What is it that Jesus demands of his disciples?
How: How can the disciple obey Jesus' high demand, while experiencing his "yoke" as "light" and "easy"?
The bulk of the book is spent unpacking these in order. In the 'why' question we look at the covenants in some detail. This is one of the key distinctives to Lunde's approach to discipleship, it's distinctly covanental. He repeatedly combs through each of the covenants (Edenic, Noahic, Abrahamic, Mosaic, Davidic, and New) looking at how Jesus fulfills them and also the relationship between grace and obedience. One of the strongest points he make is that no matter the covenant type (grant or conditional), grace was always prior to obedience, enabling it. Additionally, Lunde persuasively shows that every single covenant came with a demand of righteous behavior, whether it was a conditional or a royal grant covenant. Failing to strive to live righteously completely misunderstands what it means to live in covenant with God.
The 'what' question is probably the most memorable portion of the book. Here Lunde really zeros in on Jesus, especially focusing in on his relationship to the law, using three metaphors: Jesus the filter, Jesus the lens, and Jesus the prism. When examining Jesus as filter, Lunde looks at the question of continuity and discontinuity between the Mosaic Law and the New Covenant. What is found is that while some laws aren't to be literally observed by us in the New Covenant, often Jesus reinterprets them in a new way that heightens their requirement for obedience (e.g., food laws). The chapter on Jesus as lens explores how, with some laws, Jesus peeled back the tradition so that the original intent of individual laws and the OT as a whole could be seen and recovered (e.g., Jesus recovery of the emphasis on mercy). The lens provides clarity. Finally, Jesus is the prism because law the law travels in a different direction after interpreted by him. Some laws, like the law against adultery, are moved to a higher plane. Their demands are heightened. Because Jesus is the King, it is to him and his demands that we must render our obedience.
The third question, 'how,' is probably the toughest sledding. There's a lot of meaty exegesis and biblical theology going on. The aspect of his argument that I found most helpful was the discussion on the shape of life in covenant with God. Lunde focuses in on three main themes, remembering, receiving, and responding. We are to take time remember what God has done for us in redeeming us (e.g., Sabbath), we are to receive grace from God through the Holy Spirit which enables us to respond by living a life of faithfulness. Often it is through remembering that receiving and then responding happens. Given the emphasis on this covanental pattern, there is a very heavy focus on Jesus and his work of grace extended to us. Lunde, also helpfully takes us through some of the patterns of Jesus ministry, especially his focus on ministry to the marginalized. A strong call issues forth to us to follow in the suffering servant's, Jesus', footsteps in that regard. We are to receive and imitate Jesus' sacrificial inclusiveness.
The final section of the book provided some practical suggestions of how to carry this out, challenging both popular Evangelical methods of evangelism and our general biblical illiteracy. Here Lunde also stresses the necessity of being like Jesus in executing social justice as well as evangelizing. Lunde holds those two emphasis together well and rightly sees them as non-competing.
I have a lot of appreciation for this book. Certainly when one examines the sheer number of texts that Lunde does, you'll have minor disagreements with his exegesis here and there; that's a given. I don't want to focus on those, though, because I don't think that any points of disagreement are truly significant. I found his overall line of argument to be very helpful and persuasive. I've never thought about discipleship within the context of covenant before. It helped me see exactly how grace and the demand of obedience co-exist without one minimizing the other.
My main suggested improvement for the book would be to have more engagement with Acts and the Epistles. Very little attention is given to them, and I don't understand why. This would be particularly helpful, I think, to spend some time seeing what discipleship looked like in a non-Jewish setting, looking at how Christians in Greece and Asia Minor, guided by the apostles, followed Jesus. I don't think this would cause Lunde to change any of the stances he comes to, but I think it would make the book more practical and would add robustness to some of the points he made, especially about Jesus being 'the filter.' There is some material from Acts and the Epistles, but not nearly as much as there should be in my opinion.
Overall I found Following Jesus, the Servant King to be worth engaging. Pastors, especially those in a shepherding role, should get a copy of and read it. It also could be profitably used in adult Sunday school classes or other teaching sessions, if unpacked by the instructor. Lunde has a lot to say to the church. I hope his voice is heard and that it serves as an encouragement to more scholars to follow in his footsteps in applying solid scholarship to matters of first importance in the church.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
Covenant obedience yes, but covenant discipleship?
By TimC
Jonathan Lunde has offered an articulate and creative exposition of covenantal theology. In particular, his explanation of the relationship between various covenants and the New Covenant is very helpful, and I can see myself using his analogies of filter, lens and prism in my own teaching.
However, the central thesis of this book, that discipleship should be identified with the `righteous demands' of the New Covenant, requires closer examination. Whilst Lunde spends the bulk of his book working out the implications of this assertion, he devotes little or no time to defending it in the first place. On what basis should we choose covenant as the category in which to define discipleship? Why privilege it over, say, kingdom obedience (though the two are not unrelated), love (John 13:35), or the obedience of a student to his teacher (Luke 6:40)?
On this last, Lunde somewhat disarmingly asserts that `This book is not a detailed examination of the historical background of the term "disciple" (math't's) or of the nature of the relationship between Jewish rabbis and their students in first-century Palestine,' admitting that `this approach to discipleship is somewhat unexpected' (32). However, this omission represents a weakness in Lunde's overall position, since by it he effectively broadens the scope of biblical discipleship to be coextensive with anything one does as a Christian. Similarly, he effectively defines the `righteous demands' of a covenant as anything done by the lesser party of the covenant that is not part of the `condition' of a conditional covenant. In this way he is able to equate the two disparate concepts. One wonders why, if covenant is so important in understanding discipleship the New Testament writers rarely (if ever) refer to it?
Another methodological weakness in Lunde's argument is that it is largely founded on characteristics of individual covenants assumed also to be characteristic of the New Covenant. In the early chapters, he establishes certain characteristics that are common to all covenants - prior grace, sustaining grace, righteous demands. Yet in latter chapters he argues from, say, the law of the Mosaic covenant to the `law' of the New Covenant without offering justification of this reasoning. This is not to say that such a position is unjustifiable, just that Lunde hasn't justified it. Perhaps his assumption is that the New Covenant is the sum of prior covenants, incorporating them in their entirety albeit mediated by Christ in the same ways as articulated for the Mosaic law?
In summary, then, Lunde has offered us an excellent book on `covenantal obedience'. It is left to the reader to decide whether this may then be equated with New Covenant `discipleship'.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
"Following Jesus, The Servant King" by Jonathan Lunde
By Andrew Demoline
Introduction
I seem to be reviewing quite a few books on discipleship this month. "The Invitation" by Greg Sidders was the first; a fine simple introduction to the subject. Then came "The Gospel Commission" by Michael Horton; a not so fine book. The more I think about it the less I like it, and not because Horton is a reformed theologian, but because I think he has missed the point.
Now, in comes a third in Jonathan Lunde's addition to the "Biblical Theology for Life" series. So far, the series stands at two volumes; this one, and "The Mission of God's People" by Christopher Wright. I have to say that the first book was incredible and the second book, the subject of this review, does not disappoint. I have great hopes for the rest of this series; if they can keep up with this quality it will be well worth owning.
Summary
In Following Jesus Lunde seeks to explore and explain what seems to be a tension between the uncompromising demands Jesus makes of his followers and the unprecedented grace he offers. In so doing, Lunde asks three questions of discipleship: Why? (Why is it important to try to live up to Jesus high demands) What? (What, precisely, are Jesus high demands?) and How? (How can we possibly do this?). He argues that properly answer these questions we must understand them within a covenantal framework. Specifically, the answers are found "in the realities ushered in by the New Covenant." (31)
Obviously the full answers to these questions are extensive, as they make up the entire book. A short version might read something like what follows.
Why: The answer to this question lies in a proper understanding of covenant. All biblical covenants are initiated by God and grounded in grace, but they all also call for an appropriate response. The gracious grounding of these covenants never diminishes the demand for wholehearted obedience. They do, however, ask that this obedience be lived out in faith. When we come to the new covenant, we have an unheard of amount of grace coming in and, rather than allowing us to lesson the demand for righteous obedience, this heightens the need for our response.
What: This may be summarized in saying that we are called to submit to Jesus' reign, obey the law as it reflects the character of God (which is to say even more severely than was originally though; witness the amplification present in the sermon on the mount), and carry out Jesus' mission in the world.
How: Only in the enabling grace of Jesus Christ. To understand this better, Lunde examines how there has always been three parts to enabling a proper response: regular remembrance and reception of the grace of God which enables our response.
Response
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. More importantly, I learned from it. Lunde does an excellent job of keeping the whole of scripture in view as he explores Jesus call to discipleship. The covenantal context in which he places Jesus ministry, and ours, is eye opening and important.
I have always felt the tension between grace and demand in the words of Jesus; I think most protestants (most Christians?) do. I see the costly effects reduced demands of discipleship has but I also the incredible damage done when Christians lose sight of grace. I have read many a book on this subject, including books by Dallas Willard, N.T. Wright, and others, but none of them have satisfied. Lunde, however, has given me new hope. I still have much to think through and I know I disagree with Lunde on some of the particulars, but this book is more than a step in the right direction.
Conclusion
4.5 of 5 Stars. Recommended. Not everyone will find this an easy read. Lunde delves deep into covenantal theology, close readings of various parts of the bible, and a good mixture of theology and practice. However, these are important and needed. The book is worth your time.
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