A friend from up north posted some good thoughts on discipleship that are worth checking out…
A snippet:
It seems that we are so focused on numerical growth through evangelism that we have dropped the ball when it comes to helping those converts actually follow the one they have converted to.
Discipleship is not about attending a young person’s sporting event or having pizza with someone to ‘hear their story’. Hey, these are awesome, excellent things to do and may assist or flow from discipleship. However, discipleship, at its heart, is teaching someone the scriptures. It is opening up the manual and unpacking it for someone who wants to follow the master who wrote it. We must do this unashamedly, wisely and make it the key plank of our youth program.
Read the rest here
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