Saturday, June 11, 2005
Discipleship: WWJD?
I had a great talk with a friend who mentioned about a book "Master Plan of Evangelism" by Robert Coleman. It's about discipleship and I'll have to pick it up somewhere.
I'm convinced that discipleship is missing in our churches and if the perfect Son of God needed to spend 24x7 for 3+ years (that works out to be 2190 hours per disciple = 24 * 365 * 3 /12) for His discipleship "program," then how much more time do we need for us to "make disciples of all nations?" I don't know of any church which offers 2190 hour (or 91 days) of discipleship 24x7 training. Most churches have 3 months or 12 months training of 1 to 2 hours each week -- which works out to be about 104 hours at most or 5% of what Jesus would do (WWJD?).
I'm convinced that discipleship is missing in our churches and if the perfect Son of God needed to spend 24x7 for 3+ years (that works out to be 2190 hours per disciple = 24 * 365 * 3 /12) for His discipleship "program," then how much more time do we need for us to "make disciples of all nations?" I don't know of any church which offers 2190 hour (or 91 days) of discipleship 24x7 training. Most churches have 3 months or 12 months training of 1 to 2 hours each week -- which works out to be about 104 hours at most or 5% of what Jesus would do (WWJD?).
