An excerpt from the Simple/House Church Revolution book:
”The clergy-laity distinction removed personal discipleship from the hands of common Christians (Dennis McCallum).”
The greatest joy of the Christian life is being used by God to bring whole-life, spiritual transformation to another. We have removed much of this joy by not understanding that true “disciple-making” is about everyday life and everyday relationships—and that it is for everyone. By making it a program that is part of our churches or a process that people are specially trained to do, we are holding back Christians from stepping into their true destinies and their greatest sense of purpose. By presenting disciple-making as something we “do” to others, as opposed to something that God does (which we can invite people into), we become performance-oriented and manipulative rather than contagious as we naturally influence others toward their own relationship with God.
Disciple-making flows naturally out of the relationships we are building through reaching and loving people.
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One response to “Natural Disciplemaking”
It takes more than being with. Certainly a relationship is key but Jesus said to teach. He was with them, taught them and lived the teaching for them to see. This truncated being with discipleship sounds good but is not biblical.