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There are many books available today to help you, as a teacher, become a better discipler. Where’s a good place to start?
- Why?: There are many books available today to help you, as a teacher, become a better discipler. Where’s a good place to start?
- What?: God has created the church by calling His people out of a fallen world. He forms each local congregation as an expression of that church. God has given gifts to the church such as pastors and teachers, as we read in Eph. 4. These gifts are to equip her for ministry and her ministry is discipling. Making disciples is the one command in the Great Commission, but the supporting statements of Jesus inform our discipling ministry. “Go(ing)” in Mt 28:19 is the mission of believers. It is the heart set on making reproducing disciples of Jesus wherever we find ourselves. As image-bearers of God, we are built for relationships, for community. So, we build relationships with those we encounter and continue in relationship as the church when they come to faith in Christ. “Baptizing” in Mt 28:19 requires helping move people from being enemies of God to being willing to hear the truth of God. Apologetics equips the church for this task. When people are willing to hear the truth about God, they must also hear the truth about themselves. Understanding the gap between God and His rebellious image-bearers should prompt a response to the greatest need of humanity — reconciliation to God — by believing on the only way to God — Jesus Christ. Evangelism equips the church for this task. “Teaching” in Mt 28:20 involves both the content of truth and application of that content in life. Right application of truth is wisdom and results in right relationship to God, others, self, and all of creation. The primary teaching of the church comes from the pulpit in the corporate gathering. This teaching needs to be applied to every life in the church as they live together as a community. Other teaching exists to supplement this primary teaching. Teachers, guides, facilitators, etc. are used by God to supplement. Wisdom is obedience to God as the only way to rightly live in God’s creation. Equipping the saints by first equipping teachers and leaders equips the church for this task.
- So What?: While there are many books available to help with the practice of discipling, none of them lays a better foundation than Jesus’ Great Commission at the end of Matthew’s Gospel.
- So What Now?: Will you commit to understanding that commission as the starting point of your discipling ministry?
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By Dr. Danny R. Bowen @ TeachersOfTheBible- Why?: There are many books available today to help you, as a teacher, become a better discipler. Where’s a good place to start?
- What?: God has created the church by calling His people out of a fallen world. He forms each local congregation as an expression of that church. God has given gifts to the church such as pastors and teachers, as we read in Eph. 4. These gifts are to equip her for ministry and her ministry is discipling. Making disciples is the one command in the Great Commission, but the supporting statements of Jesus inform our discipling ministry. “Go(ing)” in Mt 28:19 is the mission of believers. It is the heart set on making reproducing disciples of Jesus wherever we find ourselves. As image-bearers of God, we are built for relationships, for community. So, we build relationships with those we encounter and continue in relationship as the church when they come to faith in Christ. “Baptizing” in Mt 28:19 requires helping move people from being enemies of God to being willing to hear the truth of God. Apologetics equips the church for this task. When people are willing to hear the truth about God, they must also hear the truth about themselves. Understanding the gap between God and His rebellious image-bearers should prompt a response to the greatest need of humanity — reconciliation to God — by believing on the only way to God — Jesus Christ. Evangelism equips the church for this task. “Teaching” in Mt 28:20 involves both the content of truth and application of that content in life. Right application of truth is wisdom and results in right relationship to God, others, self, and all of creation. The primary teaching of the church comes from the pulpit in the corporate gathering. This teaching needs to be applied to every life in the church as they live together as a community. Other teaching exists to supplement this primary teaching. Teachers, guides, facilitators, etc. are used by God to supplement. Wisdom is obedience to God as the only way to rightly live in God’s creation. Equipping the saints by first equipping teachers and leaders equips the church for this task.
- So What?: While there are many books available to help with the practice of discipling, none of them lays a better foundation than Jesus’ Great Commission at the end of Matthew’s Gospel.
- So What Now?: Will you commit to understanding that commission as the starting point of your discipling ministry?