Re-gifting Discipleship
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Re-gifting Discipleship
In the Great Commission, Matthew 28:28-20, Jesus told us to “teach them to obey everything I have commanded you.” That is what we call discipleship. If we SAY that we care about people, our friends, and family, we need to be willing and available to disciple (or teach) about living the Christian life. We must re-gift discipleship.
We live in an amazing age. With a few simple clicks of a mouse and keyboard we can watch church services from around the world. We can read web sites and blog from some of the most prolific Christian thinkers and speakers of all time. We can buy CDs, DVDs, Bibles, Devotionals, and go to Seminars and Conferences just to learn more about Jesus Christ.
There are literally THOUSANDS of opportunities to learn about Jesus and being a Christian. The hard part is that Jesus didn’t say, “Go and share a blog or MP3,” He said, “Go and disciple!” Webster’s defines ‘disciple’ as a verb meaning: to teach or train. And that means time. You have to spend time with people to properly disciple them. And many of us barely have enough time for ourselves, let alone someone else! You have to be AVAILABLE to listen and talk, share and discover, to invest your life into theirs!
So thinking about YOUR schedule, what would need to change in order for you to spend more time with the people you need to re-gift discipleship? What changes would you need to make in your life to make time to be available for people that you don’t even know? How would YOU benefit from making changes to re-gift discipleship? How might your family benefit?
Titus 2:1-8 says,”You must teach what is in accord with sound doctrine. Teach the older men to be temperate, worthy of respect, self-controlled, and sound in faith, in love and in endurance.
Likewise, teach the older women to be reverent in the way they live, not to be slanderers or addicted to much wine, but to teach what is good. Then they can train the younger women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled and pure, to be busy at home, to be kind, and to be subject to their husbands, so that no one will malign the word of God.
Similarly, encourage the young men to be self-controlled. In everything set them an example by doing what is good. In your teaching show integrity, seriousness 8and soundness of speech that cannot be condemned, so that those who oppose you may be ashamed because they have nothing bad to say about us.”
We must learn to re-gift Christianity, Salvation, and Discipleship.
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