I’m at a pastors’ conference in New Castle, NH and we’re discussing this important question: How do you know your disciple-making is working? Here’s my take on it…<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jesus said, \u201cA disciple is not above his teacher, but everyone when he is fully trained will be like his teacher<\/strong>.\u201d (Lk 6:40) Therefore, you objectively know your disciple-making efforts are working when the people who attend your church start looking like Jesus (in character and conduct). <\/p>\n\n\n\n Jesus was a servant. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Jesus was in community with other believers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Jesus lived an evangelistic lifestyle. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Jesus memorized Scripture. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Jesus prioritized time alone with God. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Jesus showed compassion for the suffering and marginalized. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Jesus was forgiving. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Jesus modeled sacrificial giving. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Etc. Etc. Etc. <\/p>\n\n\n\n And we objectively know our disciple-making efforts are working when we see our people doing these same things (and many more not listed above). The measure isn’t<\/em> “Do your people look exactly like Jesus?” but rather “Are your people slowly but surely being conformed to the image of Jesus in ever-increasing measure?” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m at a pastors’ conference in New Castle, NH and we’re discussing this important question: How do you know your disciple-making is working? Here’s my take on it… Jesus said, \u201cA disciple is not above his teacher, but everyone when he is fully trained will be like his teacher.\u201d (Lk 6:40) Therefore, you objectively know your […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-959","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-scripture","7":"entry"},"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Mike","author_link":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/index.php\/author\/mike\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1277,"href":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959\/revisions\/1277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}