Did I hear programmed discipleship?

What are you thinking? You cannot program discipleship with a step one, two or three. Are you that out of tune? I tried it for 23 + years and it doesn't work and has never worked. Discipleship is a God driven thing. As you agree to be used of God and as you follow His lead we have relevant one on one discipleship encounters. It's in these moments that as we let go, we will see God engage.

You can not offer a discipleship class and expect God-led and fruit bearing discipling results. If we want changed lives, we need to meet people where they are and then follow the lead of the Holy Spirit where they are! What's hard about this? God does all the work. We just follow Him! Sounds like fun to me!

The first step in discipleship is allowing God to lead us - as He leads them through us. When they find Jesus we lead them in Him. A good first step, immediately upon them finding Christ is always the spiritual disciplines. If they cannot get the personal and public disciplines down they will never produce other Christ followers. We must begin with the inward disciplines and then move to the outer disciplines. As every Christ follower gets the disciplines down they are ready for reproduction of new Christ followers who do the same. If they get the disciplines in order, they will reproduce other new disciples. Is this the answer to our stagnant apathy in the American Church? Are the disciplines the key? I believe so! I am convinced!

Again, what is wrong with this Jesus model? Dump the programmed approach and learn to follow the Spirit of God! If you will, the results and impact will be staggering. Why not do it the way of Jesus and watch the Church in America get out of control.

Then what will we do? We won;t be able to count them, or collect from them or corral them?

What will we do when God steps in and goes for it through us? If you can answer this, you have discovered the key to missional disciple-making out of control movements of God.

Do you have the courage to trust Him. Give me your thoughts on this issue.