The Master's Plan for Making Disciples part 7
Yo, yo, and hello to everyone out there! I hope and pray everyone had a great weekend and are having a great day today. There is a lot to talk about today. So, let's get started.
I have read chapter 7 in The Master's Plan for Making Disciples. This chapter is about assimilating new disciples into the life of the church. Assimilation is just a fancey word for discipleship. In this chapter about assimilation the authors give some great ideas about how to raise these new baby Christians. Then they show how the church needs to be involved in this process. Then they show the characteristics of an assimilated new Christian. One of the things they talk about all throughout the book is when family members bring in other own family the assimilation process is preety easily (spelling errors?). When this happens, the family members can introduce them to lots of friends in the church. And it's also great if other members of the church were heavily involved in the evangelism of your family member. That's some great stuff when that happens!
I wrote last week about how much our great God loves the week. I watched the first half of the 3rd movie in Rings trilogy. In one sence after Sourmen (or whatever his name is) dies and the Greateye ball (or whatevert it was) rolls out of Sourmen's cloke (spelling error?). And Pippin (who was riding on a hourse with Arrogorn) gets off and picks up the Greateye. Then Gandoff comes over and tells Pippin to give it to him (Gandoff). When he does, Gandoff gives him kind of a dirty look and goes off. Then later on in the middle of the night Pippin walks around a bunch of people to get to Gandoff who still has the Greateye. Pippin takes it way from Gandoff and "just wants to look at". He does and puts his hands on it and is imediately pulled in by it. He ends up being given a vision of future events of distruction by the enemy. Gandoff wakes up and has to pull Pippin out of this trance that was in for a brief moment. Gandoff demands Pippin tell him everything that happens. Then sometime later Gandoff, Pippin, and others are walking over to the hourse stable where Gandoff and Pippin were about to ride off to Helmsdeep. As Pippin and Merry are walking off Pippin is asking what was going on and Merry, quite ticked off at him, says "Why did you look? You always have to look!". And Pippin says, "I'm sorry alright? I just couldn't help it". It seems people get real unhappy about our failings at times. But really we get caught up in a moment of weakness. God loves the weak! We need to love the weak. We need to help them become strong. We need to trust in God to make us strong. Oh yes, our God loves "messes"! He loves the weak! I know I'm still weak.
Thirdly, how about the Mavs! We've won 12 in a row! Sorry Rob, we beat your Kings. Win number 13 here we come! Go Mavs!
And lastly, I'm almost done with Revoltion and with The Master's Plan for Making Disciples. Got two more chapters to read in Revolution. I'm going to read both of those chapters and write one blog about them in tomorrow's blog entry (Lord willing). And then, Lord willing, I'll read the last chapter in The Master's Plan for Making Disciples and write the last blog about that on Wendsday. Then it'll be time for more reading projects. We'll see what those will be later.
Thank you all for reading today. God bless you all in Jesus' name!
Zack
ps Please remember to pray for my friends Elijah and Kristan Peters and Rob and Denyce Hindman. Both couples are searching for sending churches and both preparing to leave the US and head for the mission field. And please pray the Lord of the harvest to send out more workers for His harvest fields (including me). Thanks so much!
I have read chapter 7 in The Master's Plan for Making Disciples. This chapter is about assimilating new disciples into the life of the church. Assimilation is just a fancey word for discipleship. In this chapter about assimilation the authors give some great ideas about how to raise these new baby Christians. Then they show how the church needs to be involved in this process. Then they show the characteristics of an assimilated new Christian. One of the things they talk about all throughout the book is when family members bring in other own family the assimilation process is preety easily (spelling errors?). When this happens, the family members can introduce them to lots of friends in the church. And it's also great if other members of the church were heavily involved in the evangelism of your family member. That's some great stuff when that happens!
I wrote last week about how much our great God loves the week. I watched the first half of the 3rd movie in Rings trilogy. In one sence after Sourmen (or whatever his name is) dies and the Greateye ball (or whatevert it was) rolls out of Sourmen's cloke (spelling error?). And Pippin (who was riding on a hourse with Arrogorn) gets off and picks up the Greateye. Then Gandoff comes over and tells Pippin to give it to him (Gandoff). When he does, Gandoff gives him kind of a dirty look and goes off. Then later on in the middle of the night Pippin walks around a bunch of people to get to Gandoff who still has the Greateye. Pippin takes it way from Gandoff and "just wants to look at". He does and puts his hands on it and is imediately pulled in by it. He ends up being given a vision of future events of distruction by the enemy. Gandoff wakes up and has to pull Pippin out of this trance that was in for a brief moment. Gandoff demands Pippin tell him everything that happens. Then sometime later Gandoff, Pippin, and others are walking over to the hourse stable where Gandoff and Pippin were about to ride off to Helmsdeep. As Pippin and Merry are walking off Pippin is asking what was going on and Merry, quite ticked off at him, says "Why did you look? You always have to look!". And Pippin says, "I'm sorry alright? I just couldn't help it". It seems people get real unhappy about our failings at times. But really we get caught up in a moment of weakness. God loves the weak! We need to love the weak. We need to help them become strong. We need to trust in God to make us strong. Oh yes, our God loves "messes"! He loves the weak! I know I'm still weak.
Thirdly, how about the Mavs! We've won 12 in a row! Sorry Rob, we beat your Kings. Win number 13 here we come! Go Mavs!
And lastly, I'm almost done with Revoltion and with The Master's Plan for Making Disciples. Got two more chapters to read in Revolution. I'm going to read both of those chapters and write one blog about them in tomorrow's blog entry (Lord willing). And then, Lord willing, I'll read the last chapter in The Master's Plan for Making Disciples and write the last blog about that on Wendsday. Then it'll be time for more reading projects. We'll see what those will be later.
Thank you all for reading today. God bless you all in Jesus' name!
Zack
ps Please remember to pray for my friends Elijah and Kristan Peters and Rob and Denyce Hindman. Both couples are searching for sending churches and both preparing to leave the US and head for the mission field. And please pray the Lord of the harvest to send out more workers for His harvest fields (including me). Thanks so much!
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