I ask God to give me the insight to make disciples. The abandoned art of disciple making draws out the purposes of a person’s heart. (Proverbs 20:5) Disciple making redirects people by training them to fully surrender to Jesus so that He can live inside of them, be their absolute Lord and their God, and direct them in all they say, think, and do.
Jesus made disciples. Then He told His disciples to go and make disciples. Disciples are made by training people to deny themselves and to take up their cross daily by dying to their own thoughts, opinions, feelings, and desires. Then they can connect heart-to-heart with the risen Jesus and be supernaturally empowered to faithfully follow and obey Him.
Instead of making disciples who daily do the word, lukewarm Christianity makes weekly audiences full of religious spectators. It trains people to be passive hearers but not wholehearted doers of what they hear. Dare to go beyond dry religion and be a disciple who daily and devotedly does what Jesus says to do! True Christianity makes disciples who continually experience the reality of “Christ in you, the hope of glory,” as they radically follow and obey Him throughout each day!
Christians are called to be led by the Spirit (Romans 8:14) not to rely on religion. (Mark 7:13) Without the spontaneity of the Holy Spirit Christianity shifts into human control, formalism, and institutionalism. (Romans 8:14) Daily discipleship! That’s why the first Christians were full of joy. Google: The Joy of Early Christianity.
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