Making Disciples Naturally

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Ron and Mary Bennett continue their discussion about walking with the Lord on a daily basis. They talk about the importance of making that daily walk a priority and not to use our busy-ness as an excuse. When hard times come, even if we don't feel like it, we can rest in the knowledge that God is walking with us. They note that young people have many demands on them, yet the importance of making a personal walk with the Lord a priority is vital. They discuss Scripture memory, meditation on the Word, prayer and other spiritual activities as being of high importance. 

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Ron and Mary Bennett continue to share their wisdom as they relate the many things that keeps them motivated to making disciples. This includes the joy that they sense when they see people grow in their faith, being obedient to Christ's command in Matthew 28:18-20, the tremendous need for disciplemaking today and their personal gratitude for what Christ has done for them. In the next part of the interview they share the Hebrew model of discipleship and show how it really is an "apprenticeship" model of one person emulating the Rabbi. 

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Ron and Mary Bennett describe some tools they have developed for having your daily devotional time or what they call an “appointment with God.” These include the High Quest series and Women of Distinction series. Finally, Ron shares two images that he finds helpful — meeting Christ in my own home and secondly meeting Him at the right hand of the Father and asking Him what He has for me today in His kingdom. 

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Ron and Mary Bennett are senior staff with the Navigators and have specialized in discipleship ministry for nearly 50 years. They discuss the difficult question "how does the church implement an effective discipleship ministry” in the midst of a busy church environment of programs? Part of the problem is a lack of an agreed-upon definition of a disciple. Ron and Mary suggest moving from a Greek definition of a disciple (more of a student) and into a Hebrew understanding of a disciple — an apprentice; moving from transferring information to that of an apprenticeship model where "life on life" is the goal.

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We are starting a new series with Ron and Mary Bennett, Senior Staff with the Navigators. They share about their background and how they met the Navigators. The Navigators emphasized making Christianity practical and personal. Later they share their hearts about their son Brian and how the Lord ministered to them through his life and challenges. Ron shares how he learned that God's grace allowed him to live not in yesterday where he might be angry for how things turned out, nor live for tomorrow (which might result in anxiety) but how God's grace was sufficient for today. 

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Dr. Richard Spann shares some thoughts about the future of the Kansas Communities Ministry, including the importance of Prayer, Individual relationships, the Word of God and the Body of Christ. He has richly blessed this ministry for over 50 years. What will the future look like? 

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Dr. Richard Spann relates a miraculous and remarkable story of how God arranged his schedule one morning to allow him to learn more about His nature: El Roi: He has complete knowledge, El Elyon: He has complete control and El Shaddai: He loves perfectly. God has a purpose and plan of infinite love. Dr. Spann relates that this experience allowed him to know God not only intellectually but also experientially. 

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Dr. Richard Spann has written a series of practical, inspiring and Biblically-based devotionals, Goads and Nails. In this podcast he relates how these came about and what some of the goals are for these, principally to help the reader be useful to the Lord. 

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Dr. Richard Spann relates what it means to him to know Christ in his own life in ever increasing depth as we look at the “objective” for the Kansas Communities MInistry. He desires to humble us and to show us that we live in the very life of Christ and HIs resurrected power. Dr. Spann relates the importance of a daily quiet time and walk with the Lord. He shares more ideas about tools he has found helpful in ministry, but also says that we are sharing more than facts, we are sharing our very lives as people look at how we relate to our spouses, children and others. 

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Dr. Richard Spann shares some ideas about helpful tools when it comes to making disciples, the value of ministering couple to couple in addition to person to person and how evangelism and discipleship have changed from 30-40 years ago to today. He then goes on to discuss the problem of busy-ness and the importance of margin in our lives as he relates the difference between what is essential, what is necessary, what is good, what we need to delegate and what we need to eliminate.