Stanley Hauerwas came from a family of bricklayers. It’s natural then, that as he looks for a craft to analogize to discipleship, he settles on bricklaying

OUR DISCUSSION of this section of his essay, “Discipleship as a Craft, Church as a Disciplined Community,” finally arrived at the “craft” bit. We saw that there is such a thing as “mastery” involved in a craft. We talked about the modern concept of being a church member (different from the biblical concept of membership) and being a disciple.