Starting with a few

What a beautiful sight it must have been on the day of Pentecost when Peter stood up and preached and 3,000 people were saved. Today, we are so easily enamored with preaching to people in large numbers, yet it is not the large numbers that are nearly as important as the individuals we follow up with in small numbers. Jesus dealt with large crowds. So often that he had to slip away to find rest and refreshing. Yet the crucial part of his ministry was the small group of disciples that he poured himself into on a daily basis. Peter, the mass group preacher, was nurtured in an even smaller group of three. Today, we have many preachers who preach to the same large group each Sunday but don't have individual fathering/mentoring relationships outside of the pulpit during the week. The Pastor without individuals in fathering relationships or disciples so to speak produces a church body that is program oriented and not people oriented. Jesus told some fishermen in Matthew 3, "Come follow me and I will make you fishers of men". In other words, come spend time with me in a regular relationship and I will pour myself into you, with my expectation being that you will become just like me, a fisher of men. Maybe today, we labor and strain so hard to produce big numbers that we have forgotten the importance and priority of dealing with people in small numbers. Lord, challenge our hearts to see individual faces and lives and not just covet a crowd. Help us to become disciples and disciple makers. Let us rise up as spiritual fathers and really see lives changed and a world won for Christ.

Welcome to Discipleship Path Ministries

The command in the gospels to "go and make disciples" is quite clear. While we want to celebrate true discipleship where we find it, our heart breaks for those who give their life to Christ at a church altar call and shortly thereafter cannot be found. While many churches to a great job of helping new believers activate their new faith, there are too many "stillborn" new births in the kingdom of God. The other side of this coin is the number of believers who have been attending church for 5, 10, even 20 years and are petrified to pray out loud in front of others for simple things like opening a small Bible study. There are people who have been Christians for 20 years and there are people who have been Christians for one year 2o times. It is time to encourage churches to make discipleship the core of the ministry not "one of the programs" available. Sort of like the old Charlie Tuna commercial, I believe the world is looking for churches where lives are being transformed and leave a good taste in our mouth when we interact with them in everyday life, not just for people who wear the label of Christian and look good on Sunday. We look forward to your thoughts and will have more for you soon. God bless.