How do we usually evaluate how successful our churches are at forming disciples? We count heads. That is so perversely American. Only Americans would count them. That's not what we're after right? Would you rather have ten deeply devoted disciples of Jesus Christ or a thousand people just hanging around?
Randy Harris from God Work
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Sunday, May 30, 2010
Sunday, May 23, 2010
Come and Follow
When people came to Jesus and wanted to know more about him, he did not preach them a sermon. He did not have classes and give lectures. He did not argue or write books. He simply said, "Come and see." He invited them to follow him into a completely new world, the world that God always intended. He called it the kingdom of God.
However, for centuries his followers (who think they know more than he does) have preached and argued and lectured and taught people into being Christians. None of that seems to work much anymore. We are living in a world where those old certainties have died. Good riddance. Perhaps our world is ready again for another approach. The way of Jesus. The way of "Come and follow."
Randy Harris from his book God Work
However, for centuries his followers (who think they know more than he does) have preached and argued and lectured and taught people into being Christians. None of that seems to work much anymore. We are living in a world where those old certainties have died. Good riddance. Perhaps our world is ready again for another approach. The way of Jesus. The way of "Come and follow."
Randy Harris from his book God Work
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