Becoming an Equipped Worker

Becoming an Equipped Worker

In previous posts, we explored the first two stages of discipleship — the invitation to Come and See and then to Follow Me. In Stage I, discipleship begins by inviting someone to walk with us so that we can learn together to follow Jesus. Stage II is where a disciple...
Becoming an Equipped Worker

Follow Me | The Second Invitation to Discipleship

In a previous blog titled “Come and See,” I noted the four stages of discipleship. They are based on the four invitations Jesus gave to his disciples: Come and See, Follow Me, Be With Me, and Go and Make Disciples. In Come and See, we began to glimpse a...
Saved by a Spiritual Father

Saved by a Spiritual Father

The apostle John refers to three levels of spiritual development in the body of Christ: children, young men, and fathers (I John 2:12-14). In this blog, we will briefly look at the role spiritual fathers play in the spiritual development of their sons (the use of male...
Becoming an Equipped Worker

Come and See | An Invitation to Discipleship

Now the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain to which Jesus had directed them. And when they saw him they worshiped him, but some doubted. And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make...
The Family Line of Jesus Christ

The Family Line of Jesus Christ

“The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham,” (Matthew 1:1). Over the years, I have shared my personal story of how I came to know Jesus the Messiah. When my brother had a powerful encounter with the Lord, who called him by grace,...