Follow Me

I must say that there has been a lot of discussion about discipleship in our church over the past several months. You see, the Lord led a new Senior Pastor to us this summer and 'making disciples' has been heralded from the podium ever since. At first I must admit the concept was quite foreign to the vast majority of our Body. "Make disciples?" What's that? We want to come in to church and worship God, fellowship with each other and go to lunch! Well now, that seems to be the problem.

Here in the west we are so proud of our church buildings and we hold up our Pastors in a hierarchy of knowledge and godliness. Why are there seminaries? Why are there non-profits? Is it because we, as the Church, have not done our job of discipling our Body into the likeness of Christ? Don't we judge our church success by how many people we can get into church? I read that that is like trying to shove meat inside the saltshaker or an open wound inside the salt container. Just as salt must leave the container to accomplish its purpose so a believer must penetrate the world to accomplish his.

So, who are we intentionally pouring our lives into? God's desire is that every one of us become a world visionary, world impacting, reproducing disciple of Christ....coincidentally, a task only He can accomplish! Let us lift up our eyes and see the world around us and the desire of God to impact the nations for Christ....His Great Commission demands no less.