{"id":732,"date":"2015-03-27T16:22:28","date_gmt":"2015-03-27T20:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobilediscipleship.org\/?p=732"},"modified":"2020-03-22T13:38:57","modified_gmt":"2020-03-22T17:38:57","slug":"day-5-of-40-days-of-discipleship-like-learning-to-ride-a-bike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mobilediscipleship.org\/day-5-of-40-days-of-discipleship-like-learning-to-ride-a-bike\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 5 of 40 Days of Discipleship: Like learning to ride a bike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1 John 3:18<br \/>\n<i>Dear children,\u00a0let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth.<\/i><br \/>\nDiscipleship is like learning to ride a bike. You need to <b>know<\/b> how the brakes, pedals and handlebars work. You need to <b>be<\/b> in balance and you need to <b>do<\/b> the pedaling and steering. But how did you actually learn to ride a bike? Often someone runs alongside and holds the bike, coaches what to do next and then gradually lets go. Sometimes we put on training wheels as a temporary help to keep our balance. The bike does not work quite as well but it gives a feeling of the experience until we are confident enough to take the extra wheels off. These 40 days are like spiritual training wheels or having someone run alongside you. These exercises will help but they are just training wheels. As you gain confidence you will discover your best patterns to more freely learn from God. And like bike riding, you will feel the wind on your face, explore creation and discover a deeper walk with the Lord.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mobilediscipleship.org\/40-days-app\/\">Instructions<\/a>\u00a0on how to\u00a0subscribe to the 40 Days of Discipleship \u00a0APP \u00a0in GoTandem with audio on your smart phone or computer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1 John 3:18 Dear children,\u00a0let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth. Discipleship is like learning to ride a bike. You need to know how the brakes, pedals and handlebars work. You need to be in balance and you need to do the pedaling and steering. But how did [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,4,29,28,27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mobilediscipleship.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mobilediscipleship.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mobilediscipleship.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobilediscipleship.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobilediscipleship.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mobilediscipleship.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mobilediscipleship.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobilediscipleship.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobilediscipleship.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}