So my dream made me realize how desperate people who come to know God are for discipleship, mentoring, and living life with other Christians. As Christians we are the hands, feet, and very presence of God. It seems that main stream Christianity thinks people just need to hear the gospel, give their lives to Jesus and that's it. But even Paul knew that wasn't it. He mentored many different churches and discipled Timothy. Our road is one of growing, learning, and producing fruit in keeping with repentance.
So I'm a new Christian, hypothetically lets say, I'm told to go to church. How does anyone learn to commune with the Lord for themselves, to know HOW to rely on him, to understand a book called the bible is supposed to be God's word when all I see is random stories, cool poems, and Jesus speaking Christianese. I think the most coherent thing to me when I became a christian were the writings of Paul, otherwise it was years before I understood the rest of the bible and what it means for me.
Discipleship and mentoring is a desperate need because of what Mark 4 shows us. Mark 4 has double meaning for discipleship & protecting a brand new seed in someone. I fear many people who evangelize don't care or don't realize people are not being discipled, mentored, or connected to a caring Christian community.
My generation and the generation behind me are falling fast because we're struggling to know him, to follow him, to know what holiness is, what it looks like, and how to stay in it. I could go into something else I'm passionate about, for now encouragement and living transparently in front a a cloud of wittiness's who call us to the floor (who are they?) are key!!! I should say now that what God has begun he will finish! I don't ever want to underestimate what the Spirit of God can do alone.
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