Discussion question
I trust you're still laughing about bears building dens in Illinois cornfields. What a strange, strange story.
But allow me to change gears and toss out a discussion question with some substance to it. I hope you'll chip in with a comment on this one!
"If you knew you would have a man and his family [in your church] for only five years, what things are so important that if they left in five years without them, you would have failed them?"
The floor is open, your comments are welcome...
posted by Eric @ 11:37 PM
3 comments
3 Comments:
Eric,
I wasn't able to laugh about the bears' dens because the pictures never came through.
If a man and his family were in the church for five years, I would assume that they had a genuine salvation experience with Jesus Christ. From there, I would hope that they have a growing, dynamic, discipling-type involvement in the church and our involved in ministry either inside the church or outside.
Ideally, disciples of Jesus reproduce. The slow route to making disciples is raising children to know the Lord and the faster route is establishing relationships with different folks and sharing Jesus as the relationship grows. The fruit of the Spirit should get more mature in quality and be evidenced by love for God and others. This is just a start to a response; I am sure others will be able to take the question closer to what you are imagining when you proposed the question.
Anyone else have trouble viewing the bear under the wheel of the combine? It is a rather large photo but I hope most of you had a chance to see it. Please let me know if there are other problems.
Thanks for taking the lead on the discussion question. Other thoughts, guys?
If this family left without taking along a vision to lead or participate in the ministries of their new church then I'd say we didn't do a very effective job of dicipling. Challenges toward "servant leadership" can sometimes not be strong enough. In fact, I dare say I've never heard such a challenge that was "too strong!"
..but that's just my opinion.
What do ya'll think?
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