Armies don’t teach their soldiers to simply sit and listen. They give them hands-on training in giving their all (even their very lives) in battle. Churches could learn a lot from the world’s armies and begin using Sunday mornings to train their members in practical ways to manifest the gifts and the fruit of the Spirit.

To “make disciples” means to train people to continually listen to and obey the risen Jesus. That kind of training should be the norm for all Christians but is now rare and hard to find. All Christians are called to be disciples and to make disciples. I love to share with people the training that God has put me through. My disciple training blog is called: Free Gas for Your Think Tank. If you Google it and go to it, you will see a search bar on the right. Type in a subject and see what God has taught me about it.

Far too often church keeps people silent and passive and causes them to be isolated and closed off to their fellow church attendees. To grow deeper in God and experience Him more powerfully requires that believers humbly open their hearts to each other and obey the 50+ New Testament one another commandments–not just sit together each week to passively listen to a sermon together.