The Master's Plan for Making Disciples part 6
Yo, yo, and hello from the Great Chickenfried nation! There are a couple of things to discuss today.
First off, I have read the sixth chapter in The Master's Plan for Making Disciples. This chapter is about the church being a partner (and central player) in making disciples. We see we need church-centered diciple-making. There are seven things listed here. Then we see six benefits for when we identify our "potential congregation". This phrase refers to those in our extended family who show the greatest potential for coming to Christ and becoming active in the church. This a great chapter. The church can (and certainly should) play an active role in getting it's members involved in outreach projects in it's neighorhoods near the building (or meeting place) and outreach to our families and friends. The members should actively find out what our family members like to do for fun and either engage in that activity with them or find someone in the church who has similar intrest in that. In this way relationships are formed, lines of communication are strengthened, and potential is there to talk about Christ and for the family member or friend to come to respond to Christ are greatly inhanced. Plus that, when the individual does come to Christ, there has already been assimilation taking place. We'll talk more about this in the next post about this book. This is a great book! If you don't already have, please get it; read it; and start using it's principles to work at your church.
Now to the next thing. I was watching a college football game last night. It was Central Michigan University playing against Ohio University for their conference championship. During the game Ohio's quaterback hands the ball off to his freshman runningback, who fumbles it and is promptly recovered by a CMU player. As the offense was running off the field, the quaterback runs over to the runningback, gives him, a pat on the back, says "don't worry about it, we'll get'em next time". One of the annoucers said, "now that's the way to do it". And he went on to say that all too often a star player on the team will yell at and berate (spelling error?) a younger player for fumbeling. But the quaterback for Ohio didn't humiliate his teammate at all. He just said "don't worry about it. we'll get'em next time". That got me thinking about God. Our God loves the weak! Praise God for that! Romans 15 starts off by say, "the strong ought to bear with the failings of the weak". Now all of us are weak in one way or another. None of us are "strong". None of us can stand on our own two feet spiritually speaking. As Jeff Walling so aptly put it in his Messy Messiah videos "God loves messes". And "you'll always be a mess, and God loves you any way". Praise God that He loves me even when I'm weak and messy.
Any comments?
Thank you for reading today. God bless you all in Jesus' name.
Zack
First off, I have read the sixth chapter in The Master's Plan for Making Disciples. This chapter is about the church being a partner (and central player) in making disciples. We see we need church-centered diciple-making. There are seven things listed here. Then we see six benefits for when we identify our "potential congregation". This phrase refers to those in our extended family who show the greatest potential for coming to Christ and becoming active in the church. This a great chapter. The church can (and certainly should) play an active role in getting it's members involved in outreach projects in it's neighorhoods near the building (or meeting place) and outreach to our families and friends. The members should actively find out what our family members like to do for fun and either engage in that activity with them or find someone in the church who has similar intrest in that. In this way relationships are formed, lines of communication are strengthened, and potential is there to talk about Christ and for the family member or friend to come to respond to Christ are greatly inhanced. Plus that, when the individual does come to Christ, there has already been assimilation taking place. We'll talk more about this in the next post about this book. This is a great book! If you don't already have, please get it; read it; and start using it's principles to work at your church.
Now to the next thing. I was watching a college football game last night. It was Central Michigan University playing against Ohio University for their conference championship. During the game Ohio's quaterback hands the ball off to his freshman runningback, who fumbles it and is promptly recovered by a CMU player. As the offense was running off the field, the quaterback runs over to the runningback, gives him, a pat on the back, says "don't worry about it, we'll get'em next time". One of the annoucers said, "now that's the way to do it". And he went on to say that all too often a star player on the team will yell at and berate (spelling error?) a younger player for fumbeling. But the quaterback for Ohio didn't humiliate his teammate at all. He just said "don't worry about it. we'll get'em next time". That got me thinking about God. Our God loves the weak! Praise God for that! Romans 15 starts off by say, "the strong ought to bear with the failings of the weak". Now all of us are weak in one way or another. None of us are "strong". None of us can stand on our own two feet spiritually speaking. As Jeff Walling so aptly put it in his Messy Messiah videos "God loves messes". And "you'll always be a mess, and God loves you any way". Praise God that He loves me even when I'm weak and messy.
Any comments?
Thank you for reading today. God bless you all in Jesus' name.
Zack
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