A Disciples Making Disciples Vision is CAUGHT!

True Vine Church and members Brian and Lori and soon to have their fourth child were/are a God-send to our disciples making disciples movement.

Lori writes: "Our second training with True Vine was this past weekend. I'm still at a loss for words to describe the church let alone the training. The vision for the church is what every church in America claims to be diligently laboring toward - but are not truly accomplishing. True Vine is about the basics and yet when described to the typical church attender the movement makes no sense.

The church has placed primary focus on the Great Commission - "Go, and make disciples." Importance of every believer to be making disciples is HUGE and surprisingly a foreign idea for many - especially for those that hold to the "preacher/pastor is the minister" idea - an idea that has zero scriptural basis. Also, an absolute reliance upon the Holy Spirit is essential in discipleship. Again, everyone believes this, right? Wrong!!! There are two extremes - those that deny His participation through the gifts of the Spirit and baptism in the Spirit and those that abuse the manifestations to such an extreme that they make a mockery of His workings in the lives of believers. The third basic concept of True Vine is walking in the Spirit and living out the Christian faith through the spiritual disciplines such as prayer, Bible study, meditation, fasting, etc. "What! We have to do that stuff?!?!" What I love is the emphasis on disciples making disciples. But, does anyone in the church actually do it? And, then there is spiritual warfare - again, a foreign concept to many in the church but so evident in Scripture. Yep, folks, the devil is real and demons are, too."

a href="">For the rest of the story and what True Vine is not about can be found on Laurie's blog in the remainder of the article called True Vine.