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The diamond - the model
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The front of the diamond of discipleship
I think in pictures. And when I think about a diamond I immediately get the picture in my head of a reversed triangle with a kind of crown on it. Some lines that gather together in a point on the bottom, et voilà. You get the picture? That’s a diamond.
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The top of the diamond of discipleship
But there’s another dimension to this picture. When you would look at the diamond from above you would see a hexagon or ‘a-many-more-gon’. A kind of round form but then broken in a multitude of facets. Many facets. Do you get the picture? That’s a diamond and I want to also use this picture to think about discipleship. This is “the diamond of discipleship”.
Questions to Chapter 1
- This chapter does not have any specific questions, but how do you reflect on both sides of the diamond?
- What resonates with you?
- What is your expectation? Your dream? Your prize?
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