Friday's Bit of Discipleship
At its very heart, being discipled is an exercise in humility. Being discipled means allowing other people to help you with your life and your character. The prideful soul will not allow it. No one will ever receive and benefit from discipling unless there is a depth of humility. Jesus told His closest friends that they would not even enter the kingdom of heaven, much less become great, unless they changed and humbled themselves (Matthew 18:1-4)
page 89, The Prideful Soul’s Guide to Humility, Fontenot/Jones
Discipleship Prayer of Humility
Father God, help me see the value of humbling myself and letting You disciple me through others. Further than that, help me put this philosophy into practice in my day-to-day schedule and agenda. May I live to Your glory in Jesus’ name.
MISSIO DEI Discipleship Point
What is the meaning of being sent into the world?
Today we focus on part three:
The church is sent to a mankind that was created holy and yet is fallen. We are all sinners, lost and condemned, with unbelief, disobedience, and distorted world views, with deviant behavior. We all live in darkness and filth, tribulation, and sorrow, under the prince of this world and under God’s judgment. And yet, this fallen and lost world was in the beginning wonderfully created and perfect.
The community of faith cannot let this scare us. We cannot stay comfortably behind locked doors, hiding in self-preservation and fear. We cannot face inward. Rather, Christ calls us to be immersed in the fallen world – to know it and study it, to relate to others and to suffer for and with them. He calls us to love this world. All people of the world need love, precisely because they are living in a world of tension that is inescapable because of sin.
See the following Scriptures in your Bible or on pages 248-249 of The Great Sending book: John 17:14-16, John 17:18, 1 Corinthians 9:19-23, 8:17-18, Philippians 1:29
Discipleship Prayer
Lord Jesus, You call us to be immersed in this fallen world – to know it and study it, to relate to others and to suffer for and with them. Let us do so in Your name and to the glory of God. Amen.