Life-On-Life…for real
26 Jul 2011 3 Comments
What do you do when people become followers of Jesus and are starting from ground zero? They don’t know what a Bible IS much less have ever seen one.
They don’t know ANY of the stories many of us take for granted, not one verse, no baseline of cultural assumptions about Jesus. Starting from scratch.
As best we can tell, this is what you do………..
LIFE ON LIFE, MISSIONAL DISCIPLESHIP.
You open your home, your family, your parenting, your marriage for all to see and watch. You pray for compassion and love to flow from you and through you. You pray you are a good witness, a good example. You pray that they will see Jesus in action and go deeper into understanding who He is.
It is messy, time consuming and very tiring. But it is the very essence of “go and make disciples” and it is worth pouring your life into.
Remember the woman who came to Christ a few weeks ago? We call her “J”. She is now part of our group and we are meeting weekly to disciple her. Remember our helper, P-Ou, who came to Christ at Christmas time? She is here too!
The Thais are leading it, the younger Christians are watching the more mature Thais lead it and they are learning how to lead too. All of this while the new believer learns for the first time. It is multiple levels of discipleship and we are super excited about it.
Would you please pray for us as we do this in our home weekly?
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Jul 26, 2011 @ 19:16:34
Thank God for people like you who go and teach and change the world through His Word and your example.
Jul 27, 2011 @ 21:24:47
This is so exciting! I love getting these emails and reading the blog posts. Thank you for sharing with us. I’m smiling so big right now at what God is doing through you. And at what He is doing before your eyes! What an incredible God we serve!
Aug 03, 2011 @ 22:01:19
I Love what Jesus is doing!!!!! He is so powerful! He is so merciful! He is Love!!! He is the ultimate servant! Though He is God we praise Him that He humbled himself and became obedient unto death on the cross. Be not weary in following his example. We are all praying for your strength. We love you! Though so far from each other we are all brought together on your web page to lift up praise to Him!