Few have illustrated the process of imitating Jesus as an apprentice, a student, a disciple than Kirby Puckett, who was the centerfielder for 13 years for the Minnesota Twins baseball team. He had a career batting average of .318, made the All Star lineup ten years in a row, and won six golden gloves for defensive play. He was also a well known Christian. Dennis Martinez, pitcher for the Cleveland Indians, once crushed the left side of Kirbys face with a pitch. Martinez assumed that Kirby would hate him. But when he had recovered a bit, Kirby called Martinez my good friend and blamed himself for not getting out of the way of the fastball. He was an outstanding community leader for good causes, and expressed his faith naturally in words that matched his lifestyle. We can not restrict our discipleship to special religious times isolated from the majority of our waking, working hours. If you dislike or even hate your job, a condition epidemic in our culture, the quickest way out of the job, or to joy in it, is to do it as Jesus would. This is the very heart of discipleship....and we cannot be an effective apprentice, student of Jesus then we must be doers of the word and not hearers only.
Posted on: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 23:01:30 +0000
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