Discussion Jumpstarter
Study leader reference - not a definitive answer
Question 5
The speaker frames the simple life as discipleship: “learning to talk like, think like, be like, live like the Master” and “taking on the mind of Christ”; which areas of your thinking (not just behavior) most resist becoming like Christ, and what do you think that reveals about your real “single focus”?
Another way to ask: What parts of your thinking resist becoming like Christ the most, not just your behavior? What does that show about what you’re really focused on?
Discussion Jumpstarter
Direct Answer
The transcript doesn’t name specific “areas of thinking” that resist Christ, but it strongly implies the main resistance is in our inner will—wanting “our own way” rather than the Father’s will. That resistance reveals whether our true single focus is Christlikeness or self-directed control dressed up as discipleship.
- Cliff defines discipleship as “following the Master, learning to talk like, think like, be like, live like the Master.”
- He highlights inner transformation: “take on the mind of Christ… Let this mind be in you.”
- He calls simple life “a worldview… becoming like Christ,” not merely external simplicity.
- He explains the struggle: “we live with conflicting desires… we want kind of our own way, but we know we should follow the Master.”
- He says Jesus also had conflicting desires but a “single determinative will… to do the will of the Father,” showing the goal.
- He emphasizes the needed posture: “broken… yielded… to follow wherever he calls us.”