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We want to keep bringing our focus back to the importance of intentionality.
The point of being intentional is to do something with purpose and not leaving the outcome up to chance or fate. Being intentional means that you have a specific outcome in mind and that you are taking specific, logical steps in order to achieve that outcome.
Therefore, we not only intentionally attempt to form relationships and make disciples, but we intentionally attempt to produce a specific outcome when we make disciples of Jesus.
But what is that outcome?
Initially, when I (Curtis) was first learning about being a Jesus-style disciple maker, I would have answered that the specific outcome of making disciples of Jesus was to produce disciples that are conformed into the image of Jesus. In fact, Paul wrote that in the life of the believer God works all things toward the purpose of his followers being “conformed to the image of his Son.” (Romans 8:28-29)
However, I am a naturally inquisitive person who believes that no questions are off-limits, so as I continued to personally study discipleship, I asked myself the question of, “Why? Why is it so important that we are conformed into the image of Jesus?”
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Forming our lives around Jesus, so that we find salvation and kingdom life in him, is our focus. It is the heart of what it means to be a disciple and make disciples.
Easter is a great time to pause and examine a very important foundation for discipleship in Jesus.
According to Scripture, Easter and the resurrection leads us to imitate and obey Jesus, as His disciples. In our conversion, typified by baptism, the apostle Paul wrote:
“Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.” (Romans 6:3-4)
Not only is our sin and our fallen self put to death with Jesus in His crucifixion, but our new self, which is to be re-made in His image, is resurrected to live like Him. Paul also wrote of the resurrection:
“…Your whole self ruled by the flesh was put off when you were circumcised by Christ, having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through your faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.” (Colossians 2:11-12)
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As a lead pastor, grandfather, and national leader, I am becoming increasingly concerned about discipling our children.
What is happening in North America with children is alarming!
Like all lifestyle issues, the root solution is a focus on discipleship and disciple making.
At Discipleship.org, we put children’s discipleship this way: THE GREAT COMMISSION before the great commission of Matthew 28 is Deuteronomy 6:6-9
These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates.
Between 80-85% of all people who came to Christ in the last 100 years made their commitment by age 14… now, take a few minutes and think about that truth and the implications of what is happening today…
Many churches and Christians are not strong at raising counter-cultural families. Often, family discipleship is weak, the church is not equipping parents and children, and the school systems are developing philosophies that are antagonistic to truths in scripture.
What should we do?
There are several key responses that we must make. We will be diving into this topic and some important strategies at this year’s National Disciple Making Forum.
Click here to learn more about the National Disciple Making Forum.
However, we are also going to be diving into these questions in our daily blog posts at Discipleship.org. The first step for many of us is to simply wrap our minds around this topic of discipling our children. To help in this quest, Discipleship.org will be publishing a 3-part blog series by Renee Sproles (from RENEW.org).
Click the link below to read Renee's first blog.
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