Why Discipleship is Important to Me

God has been dealing with me in two areas that I, personally, feel I have failed tremendously. These two being evangelism and discipleship. I had allowed myself to become isolated to the same group of people and the same four walls. I was a well that had become stagnant.

Coming from the northern part of Florida, we have always had a major problem with mosquitoes; the biggest reason is because we have areas where water becomes trapped and can be a breeding ground for them. Spiritually, I had become a lifeless body of water that brought about more problems than I could handle. I would complain and complain about everything and I felt as if I had become an annoying mosquito.

When people would try to tell me, “you need to not do that,” I would use my recent situation to tell them I was allowed to be mad. I would go  to church, teach Sunday school, play guitar, sit through the preaching and then go home. I was honestly just going through the motions. I looked like a river, but the closer you would get, the more you would see I had become inactive. I was always taking and I would never give of myself fully. I created a strain on the movement of the gospel and I was not contributing in any way. I had to come to the realization of one of the hardest things and admit, “I WAS WRONG.”

One of the biggest things that helped me to see my fault, was that we had new members at our church that were mission minded. Another thing that helped me was that I went to a Bible Study with my girlfriend and one statement that one of the guys made was that, “create disciples that create disciples.” They kept asking everyone if they found the one person in their life that they could pour into and bring them to Christ, then into discipleship for Christ. Just like the flip of a switch, God spoke to me and said, “this is what my church is for.”

I went home that night and began to study discipleship, witnessing and evangelizing. I allowed God to use His words to take over my entire being with a want and need to tell someone about Christ and also, to help my brothers and sisters to grow with me into His disciples.

Discipleship is more than a class. It is living life with those around you and keeping each other accountable to the spiritual growth of each person for the advancement of God’s kingdom.

It doesn’t take many people to make a difference. You may be the change that the world needs.