Discipleship – way of life

You must be inundated and saturated with the word “discipleship” already!  Our church has awakened to the simple command of Jesus to go and make disciples.  Are you doing it?

John. C.Maxwell puts it this way: Legacy=Message + Method

Jesus’ legacy to the world, to Christianity is twofold: the Message, the Gospel of Salvation, and the Method, discipleship, investing in people in small groups of influence.  If we disconnect the Message from the Method the Legacy does not, will not, work!

We all know and lover the Message.  We all call ourselves Christians, followers of Jesus.  Are we committed to His method?

The Methodist church organized by John Wesley is called so because they bought in to the Method – Small groups for accountability and support was their mode of operation, and it produced revival, conversions, transformation of society.  And then the method was forgotten.  Our movement emerged from Methodism with the same method – small groups! And around the world today wherever there is a revival, there are small groups.

I had written to you last week that only truly becoming a disciple of Jesus, and discipling others guarantees the Revival to go on. How busy are you?. What are you busy with?. What can you let go to find time in discipling your family, find time to be discipled in a group of like-minded believers opening the Word of God?

Our Church is tasked with organizing an active discipleship plan as a part of our Vision for the future.  There are many slogans and formulas as others have done it already… Like “Know-Grow-Go-Show”. We have had an additional doctrine, No.11, introduced to the church in 2005 entitled “Growing in Christ” which was focused on the Discipleship and is our Present Truth for today. Yet it will make a difference only when an individual decides to take seriously this “discipleship”

Do you have disciples? Are you being discipled? As you read the book of Acts you will notice that early believers were called “disciples” (Acts 1:15, Acts 6:1,7; Acts 9:1, 19, 25-26, 38; Acts 13:52; Acts 14:20-22, 28; Acts 15:10; Acts 18:23,27; Acts 19:1,9,30; Acts 20:1,7,30..and the list goes on!. Can the same be said about our church? “The Disciples in Windsor, the disciples in Belle River, the Disciples in Amherstburg, the Disciples in Essex, the Disciples in Ontario.”

A revival of true godliness among us takes place when we return to do church as Jesus designed it – a discipleship of believers, not just an institutional formality.

Please prayerfully consider yourself in God’s discipleship process.