Discipleship is probably the hardest of all the purposes to actually follow through with and the most frustrating. Once a kid is plugged in to a ministry it is no longer just a church thing. It becomes an all the time thing. It takes more than your local church to disciple a youth. It takes the youth themselves to be self sufficient and the parents to follow up with them on a daily basis. Discipleship is the growth that leads a person into their personal ministry. When we sit back and wonder why people have no heart for serving God it can usually be traced back to the discipleship phase of their growth in the Lord.
We have to start making disciples of the ones who are new in Christ. We as the mature Christians have to follow up with our spiritual babies. This means everyone not just the youth. We have to instill in them daily Bible reading and devotions. We have to put our daily focus on God first then everything else. We need to encourage and uplift the new believers that their choice was not unwise. We have to show them our lives in a way that does not make us Hypocrites. If it was just up to the church to make the disciples some of you would never be able to serve God in your personal ministry. It takes a complete effort from all of us to grow and build our youth and others who are new to Christ into the spiritually mature. Let’s show our babies that Christianity is more than opposing things in this world but standing for the one who died for us. I leave you with this quote from the book Unchristian by David Kinnaman:
“As Christians we have become more famous for what we are against than who we are for.”
In Christ
Keith
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