Discipleship In The Color Purple

The foundation of the Christian faith was strongly built on love. From the beginning, Christians are taught about God's love for his creation, and are told that discipleship is the best way to mirror it. The Color Purple, however, illustrates a false idea of what it means to be a Christian, and what it means walk like a disciple. Christianity is often inaccurately represented, if represented at all, by some of Christ's followers, thus true Christians must forefront God's love in their own lives, reflect God's love for all individuals with their actions, speak kind words, and learn to effectively spread the gospel in order to depict the meaning of Christianity well. Establishing what discipleship is and the associated behaviors can be difficult,
God expects his Christian believers to be a representative of his love within their faith, which means carrying out the said values mention by Paul. Failure to do so can be detrimental to an individual, especially when they show such little faith mainly because, if they do it means that they are not following the criteria of be a good disciple. Overall pain that they may have caused someone can whey heavy on their heart, in return of their punishment. Furthermore, this was seen in the film adaptation of The Color Purple, which we will later on
C.S lewis started to loose faith especially when another love one by the name of Joy his wife was taken from through cancer, his faith was no long there, it went out the door.
In the book of surprise by joy, C. S lewis mentioned, his mother condition that led him to pray and have faith because that is what he was was taught to do when tragedy occur. However in result nothing came out of it his mother passed away, C.S Lewis states “ I had approached God, or my idea of God, without love, without awe, even without fear. He was, in my mental picture of this miracle, to appear neither as Savior nor as Judge, but merely as a magician; and when He had done what was required of him I supposed He would simply- well, go away”.(Lewis 21) . Its interesting how Lewis had lose all faith in God with tragedies occurring around him compare to Celie who still had strong faith in God regardless of what was going on her life or. This defiantly shows discipline ship vs. non discipline and their commitment towards the faith, which can either bring you closer or draw one further away from God. Sometimes with tragedies happening in ones life, like C.S Lewis for example, may take a long period to get nearer to God. Also, it shows the extremity of Gods Test towards one faith in