I hope all of you are doing well. Hopefully the warm weather is coming for you guys and you can get out and enjoy God's creation. It has been really nice here even though it has been raining a lot. Rain makes the driving very interesting with the conditions of the roads and the lack of a drainage system. I also got pulled over for not wearing my seatbelt this week which is hilarious since I see people riding on the top of dump trucks all the time and the fact their is no car seat law. I argued for a while since every car that passed didn't have their seat belt on but he was getting mad and he had a AK47 so I let him win. The government here is very amusing to me.
Well everything else is going well. The children's home is going well. They are starting to learn some work ethic. Our efforts are starting to pay off. The discipleship program is going great now. We have ten Bible classes going now with many of them being led by Haitians who we have discipled. God is good.
Over the last month, I have been teaching a discipleship class on the book of Acts. I just finished it yesterday. The great thing about this study is that not only did we study the whole book of Acts, but we spent three hours yesterday talking about how we make disciples. We know that is what Jesus asked us to do, but what does that phrase mean? We say it all the time, but what does it mean? So I want to make a few points about that phrase in this blog.
How do we make disciples? Well the Bible shows us a few things that we must consider. First of all, lets look at the word disciple. A disciple in Jesus' time meant a student. Discipleship must have teaching involved: teaching the Bible, teaching about life and modeling what a disciple should look like. The disciple must be teachable. To be able to teach someone you must be with them. Jesus was with his disciples and Paul spent plenty of time with his too.
Discipleship must be done within a relationship. Discipleship is friendship with a purpose. The couple men who disciple me know that is the purpose of our relationship. They know they are discipling me, and I know I am being discipled.
Discipleship must be done over a long period of time with lots of patience. It took Jesus three years, and He was Jesus. We need to be patient.
I would encourage all of you to think about who you want to disciple. Talk with them about your intentions and spend time with them on a regular basis. This was Jesus' plan to reach the world. He could have done it without us, but He gives us the opportunity to serve Him. GET IN THE GAME. Understand the amazing opportunity we have to work for God.
Quote
"Every Christian is either a missionary or an imposter"-Spurgeon
God bless,
Josh
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