Vision Glorious

We’re hosting another discipleship conference at our Church where we have around 32 people preparing to be one-to-one disciplers.¹ This would explain some of our down-time from VG and other web-work.  The conference speakers asked me to write a little somethin’ somethin’ on the importance of discipleship and I thought I would share it here on VG even though we’re still mining the subject of Christian community. However, I have personally found that healthy and systematic discipleship is crucial to form authentic and profound Christian community in our generation.

The Great Commission drips with discipleship ( Matthew 28:18-20). Jesus was concerned with imparting knowledge of His Father to the people of His day. But He also knew that facts alone would not bring about Kingdom living or Darkness-rending righteousness. The Father’s children needed living examples; discipleship. As any parent recognizes, their children are their legacy. So it is with the Heavenly Father — His children are Heaven’s Legacy arising through the Earth. Who will be God’s ambassadors? Who will stand in the face of Islam and represent God’s existence to humanism and naturalism? Who will do mighty, spiritual works in the fields of secularism and send evil spiritual forces scattering? It will be The Father’s Kids. And the Father has directly welcomed all of us into this nurturing, caring, and training plan that He’s brought from Heaven to Earth. Discipleship must happen — for God’s sake!

1. We utilize one of the best plans available today for one-to-one culture called Discipling Another to Love Jesus [back]