Friday, September 25, 2009

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.

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