507: The Four Pillars — Discipleship as a Forge

Brent Billings· Host0:00

[upbeat music] This is the BEMAW Podcast with Marty Solomon. I'm his co-host, Brent Billings. Today, I am looking at the pillar of discipleship through the philosophical perspective of one Reid Dent.

Reed Dent· Guest0:20

Philosophical?

Brent Billings· Host0:21

I don't know.

Reed Dent· Guest0:22

[laughs] I don't know if that's the- You tend to bring the philosophy to us. No, I don't know. That's, that, I d- I think... Well, one, I think philosophy gets a bad rap, and two- [laughs] ... I don't know that the rap should be mine anyway. [laughs] I'm looking at it through the lens of just my own life and what I do for a job.

Brent Billings· Host0:40

You lead a philosophical life. You read out loud to people.

Reed Dent· Guest0:43

Well, I mean, that doesn't... I read- You make people think. I read picture books out loud to people, not just- That's fine ... I don't, I, I usually am not reading philosophy out loud to people.

Brent Billings· Host0:51

Yeah, but you do it.

Reed Dent· Guest0:52

Um, although sometimes.

Brent Billings· Host0:53

Yeah.

Reed Dent· Guest0:53

But I guess, if what we're talking about is, like, plumbing the depths and searching for meaning, then yeah, I will happily own that. That is what I like to do, and, uh, I do it as a job with college students, which I probably should just start out by saying that I recognize that a lot of, almost all of our listeners are not in that boat, that they don't have the same kind of available time and space in their schedules that college students have, and that I, I don't, I don't actually know what people think of when they think of the word discipleship. Probably different things. Like, some people are probably