DISCIPLESHIP


I just returned from ten days of vacation and have no time to come up with a new blog post! So I am going to offer you a link to a fantastic article I read on the plane home last Sunday. It is from the latest "Mission Frontiers" bulletin, and addresses what I believe is the single most important reason that churches (and Christians) are floundering in America these days: a lack of DISCIPLESHIP! After 31 years in ministry, I am realizing (as the article points out) that churches have focused so much on "getting people saved" (and on programs, church growth strategies, and lots of busy activities) rather than on "making disciples" (Matthew 28:19) that "there seems to be a great deal of confusion in the Church about what is and what is not the mission that God has given us. And if the leaders are confused, then how can the average church member possibly understand what God has called us to do? The more ominous question is whether the Church as a whole has adopted the wrong mission and as a result we have not fulfilled what God has intended."

Intrigued? Read on: Discipleship