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In Chapter 2 of Colossians. I am putting Leviticus on a slow pause for now.
I am very interested in discipleship. We don't see that anywhere within the church anymore. The intimacy between followers of Christ and ministers/teachers.
The word disciple is found more than 260 times in the Gospels and Acts, and the verb translated “to learn as a disciple” is found twenty-five times in the New Testament. In that day, a disciple was not simply a person who sat and listened to a teacher. He was someone who lived with the teacher and who learned by listening, looking, and living. Discipleship involved more than enrolling in a school and attending lectures. It meant total surrender to the teacher. It meant learning by living. Perhaps our modern-day medical students or trade apprentices come close to illustrating the meaning of discipleship. But we who disciple other believers must be careful not to get in the way. We are not to make disciples for ourselves, but for Jesus Christ. We must relate people to Him.
I long for the day when we can truly experience this not just a "membership ideology" within a building of a church.
I am definitely enjoying Colossians how Epaphras was a faithful minister. He not only won people to Christ, but he taught them the Word and helped them to grow. He also prayed for them (Col. 4:12–13) that they might become mature in Jesus Christ. When danger threatened the members of the church, Epaphras went to Rome to get counsel from Paul. He loved his people and wanted to protect them from false doctrines that would destroy the fellowship and hinder their spiritual development.
I cannot wait to study more of Colossians. Definitely so important to live it, listen and constantly be teaching it [which I do daily with my own daughters]. Perhaps one day more people can be in our fellowship physically too.
I am very interested in discipleship. We don't see that anywhere within the church anymore. The intimacy between followers of Christ and ministers/teachers.
The word disciple is found more than 260 times in the Gospels and Acts, and the verb translated “to learn as a disciple” is found twenty-five times in the New Testament. In that day, a disciple was not simply a person who sat and listened to a teacher. He was someone who lived with the teacher and who learned by listening, looking, and living. Discipleship involved more than enrolling in a school and attending lectures. It meant total surrender to the teacher. It meant learning by living. Perhaps our modern-day medical students or trade apprentices come close to illustrating the meaning of discipleship. But we who disciple other believers must be careful not to get in the way. We are not to make disciples for ourselves, but for Jesus Christ. We must relate people to Him.
I long for the day when we can truly experience this not just a "membership ideology" within a building of a church.
I am definitely enjoying Colossians how Epaphras was a faithful minister. He not only won people to Christ, but he taught them the Word and helped them to grow. He also prayed for them (Col. 4:12–13) that they might become mature in Jesus Christ. When danger threatened the members of the church, Epaphras went to Rome to get counsel from Paul. He loved his people and wanted to protect them from false doctrines that would destroy the fellowship and hinder their spiritual development.
I cannot wait to study more of Colossians. Definitely so important to live it, listen and constantly be teaching it [which I do daily with my own daughters]. Perhaps one day more people can be in our fellowship physically too.
