Let's get honest with each other...

It's time for an honest lo down here.

For the 24 years of successful pastoral ministry I have seen trends of all kinds. There have been huge methodology changes. Methods come and go but the Word of God remains the same, was our motto.

I've spoken with district superintendents and denominational leaders who have said and would like to believe that what I am proposing and what they are doing are the same things. Just another method or method or model to accomplish what we are all doing. NOT!!!

They have stated that in the (blank) church we allow for all expressions of church and all models are acceptable and can coexist. Herein is where the fallacy lies. All models are not just other or another model. Some of what they refer to as a model isn't a model at all. It is a philosophy difference. A different philosophy will bring different results.

While God is working in the traditional American Church, God is calling out a remnant of people into something else. As I state in other posts, people do not like to be called into something and then have that calling change. Whatever people signed on for you is what you can hold them to. But people in the American Church were not called personally to making disciples themselves. So when a group comes in a tries to do it as a priority it causes all kinds of problems in the church/denomination.

What I am suggesting is that -what I am involved in is not just another method/style. The thought of another style, model, gimmick makes me nauseated. The Disciple Driven Church (using keystone principles) is a Philosophy shift in what we do and how we do what God has called us all to do. I really don't care what you were called to by man, I am concerned about what WE ALLLLL have been called to by God. Go and make disciples - the go is for all of us personally.

"Take up your cross and follow me..."
"Leave you family and friends..."
"Let the dead bury the dead..."
"Offer your bodies as living sacrifices..."

What we have used to define a disciple isn't in line with how Jesus defines one. This philosophy is not just another style or method, it is radical, and, like gas and water, it will not mix within present and existing structures.

Let's stop using other models to describe the remnant God is calling out to be and do. This is a huge shift in how we live, serve and sacrifice for Jesus. Making disciples who make disciples demands obedience, sacrifice and a surrender uncommon in the American Church. We are not just another style or model. This is a major philosophy change that rocks the boat when forced to live in the old skin.

This philosophy threatens the America Church structure and merging the two threatens the mission of making disciples who must all make disciples. The two are operating under two distinctly different philosophies.

Let's get honest with each other.