1 part Complete Short stories inspired by New Testament scripture.
The New Disciples is a collection of stories that were inspired by brief passages in New Testament scripture. So often, as we read about the footsteps and faith teachings of Christ and his disciples, we are exposed to characters about whom we know very little. Sometimes we see only one or two verses about a person, sometimes a paragraph, but these brief passages are sufficient only enough to elicit curiosity about their life experiences. Scripture gives us very little about the wise men who traveled across the middle east in order to bless the baby Jesus, or about Barabbas whose life was spared as a prelude to the crucifixion, or Lydia who encountered Paul during his mission to Philippi. In each case they play a pivotal role in some way as to the furtherance of the greater mission picture in which they appear. In this collection of short stories, Robert Moyer has written plausible scenarios by which we might gain insight into the lives of some of these people and their individual pathways to Christian faith. While technologies and cultures have changed over the millennia, human nature today remains very much consistent with that of the human experience in the days of the living Christ and the legacy of faith he left for us. Through the lives of these characters, we see ourselves reflected on circuitous journeys similar in many ways to those we have followed in leading us to God's gift of the cross.
