David Watson claimed that most Western Christians were not true disciples. The central theme of this text is that Jesus called upon his followers to become disciples by denying themselves, taking up the cross and following him.
Christ calls us to decisive discipleship... but all too often we settle for flabby faith. "The vast majority of Western Christians," claims David Watson, "are church members, pew-fillers, hymn-singers, sermon-tasters, Bible-readers, even born-again believers or...