The Radical Minimum

Some thoughts from Dallas Willard in The Great Omission

The disciple of Jesus is not the deluxe, heavy-duty model of the Christian - especially... empowered for the fast lane.... He or she stands on the pages of the New Testament as the 1st level of basic transportation in the kingdom of God (p. 14)
Erwin McManus calls this the radical minimum. He says that when he 1st followed Christ he assumed every Christ follower followed, reached out, served, read and was formed by the scriptures, surrendered their lives in trust to Jesus. Only later did he discover that Christians - not Jesus or the Bible - created levels of commitment or discipleship. I think his 1st assumption, along with Willard's quote - is in tune with Jesus and the New Testament.
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Jesus told us what to do, we have a manual, just like a car. He told us, as disciples, make disciples. Not converts to Christianity, nor to some particular faith and practice. He did not tell us to arrange for people to 'get in' or 'make the cut' after they die, nor to eliminate the various brutal forms of injustice, nor produce or maintain 'successful' churches. These are all good things, and he had something to say about them. They will certainly happen if - but only if - we are and do what the told us to be and do (from the introduction, xii)