EAU CLAIRE, Wis.

Dan Kohns new book, Discipleship in the Postmodern Age, gives practical advice on how to be more than just Sunday-morning pew-sitters who pursue other passions the rest of the week.
Kohn says: A new vision needs to be set within Christs body of believers regarding their integrity and destiny. A part of the re-visioning will be a reflection backward toward what Scripture outlines when it comes to disciple-making, as found in the four Gospels. Kohn then creatively weaves a first-person narrative by the apostle Peter, giving practical steps on becoming a disciple and making disciples. Peter describes how Christ molded him from an ordinary, uneducated fisherman, full of blunders, doubts, and fears, into a disciple who boldly stood for Christ and paid the ultimate price. Christ never gave up on Peter and never gives up on us. Peters humility and amazement that Christ still wanted to use him, even after he denied 3 times that he knew his Lord, encourages us that God can always use us if we are willing.
Through Peter, we see that God does not want nor expect us to be perfect before He will use us. He s ...