Every Christian needs to be trained to:

• Put and keep Jesus first!
• Get and stay passionately in love with Jesus!
• Keep their promises.
• Encourage and serve other people.
• Pray out loud with other people.
• Be kind to everyone.
• Hang out with the living Jesus every day.
• Speak the truth in love.
• Refuse to compromise with the world or become lukewarm.
• Read the Bible daily with an open heart.
• Hear and obey Jesus’ voice.
• Show mercy to and forgive everyone.
• Embrace humility.
• Share their salvation testimony.
• Bring every thought captive to Jesus.
• Trust Jesus and His word instead of their feelings.
• Tell others about Jesus.
• Make disciples.
• Honor “the lease of these.”
• Speak out and stand up for those who are being mistreated.
• Bless and pray for those who curse them.
• Confess their sins.
• Ask God and people for forgiveness.
• Quickly repent and turn away from all wrongful thoughts and actions.
• Always be honest.
• Consider others better than themselves.
• Cultivate a continual inner flow of the fruit of the Spirit.
• Operate in the gifts of the Spirit.
• Let the Holy Spirit convict them and show them where they’re off track.
• (Feel free to add in the comments other things Christians need to be trained to do.)

Following and obeying the risen Jesus requires rigorous training. It’s time that churches rise to the occasion and begin to make disciples instead of passive sermon-hearers.