Making Disciples isn’t so much about adding more to your day; it’s about shifting what you already do. Instead of paying at the pump, pay inside and be kind the the cashier. Instead of getting your coffee at the drive-thru, go into your neighborhood coffee shop and make friends with your barista. Instead of playing ball in a church league, play at the local community center or YMCA. Whatever you do, shift it slightly. Hang around people who don’t know Jesus. Build relationships over time. Look for appropriate times to glorify God. And always, always, search for those who are searching for the answers to their spiritual questions.
In terms of relationship with lost people, many Christians live each day in empty fields. They do not intentionally structure their day-to-day life to come into meaningful contact with people who do not know Christ. Sure, we see lost people around us all the time, but how often is there opportunity to develop relationships with them? We must choose to intersect our lives with a lost world, form meaningful relationships, and look for appropriate opportunities to disciple lost people into a relationship with Christ. Only then can we expect to transform our neighborhoods, communities, cities, and nations with the Gospel.
Ronald Gabrielsen started a house church in a city in Denmark which was named: City without hope. They didn’t have a lot of experience and learned their lessons:
1) It is easy to gather people, but it is hard to really disciple them and change their mindset of what house church is about.
2) From beginning talk about house church, even if the people are newly saved people. Most Europeans have the idea that church is a building.
3) Train others to do it. Give space for them to lead the groups.
In March 2010 the SC.eu team went on a trip to Denmark to visit and encourage churchplanters. We made a video with the powerful testimony of Torben Sondergaard. He tells a story where God gives him a dream and leads him to Pakistan people in Denmark who got saved and healed. Be inspired!
Neil Cole teaches about Life Transformation Groups. Groups of 2/3 coming together to read the word, ask each other accountability questions and pray for unbelievers.
