Today Jess Bousa spoke to our church about making discipleship a priority in our lives. I wonder what stood out to you? “The One Thing” stood out to me. Jesus left the disciples With one imperative command – “make disciples.” Jesus left the plan of how to do this through His own lifestyle of making disciples and the instructions he gave us in the Great Commission in
Matthew 28:18-20.
I really related to his example of the parent leaving the child with just one thing to do while she was at work. She gave her son permission to do whatever he wanted – watch TV, play Wii, use the computer, etc but she wanted him to take out the garbage before she came home. That evening when she came home from a long day of work she found the kitchen garbage overflowing onto the floor. The sky was the limit as to what her son could do but she only gave him one imperative – take out the garbage.
I can remember seeing my mother’s disappointed face when she came home from a long day of waitressing and then grocery shopping only to find the kitchen a mess because we hadn’t done our one thing – straighten up the kitchen so she could fix supper. She let me have it verbally and with appropriate discipline. I decided then and there I’d never let that happen again.
Jesus has left us with one imperative – one command to be His disciple. Disciples naturally make disciples because in being a disciple of Jesus we become like Him and He made disciples. Jesus said,” Come, follow me and I will make you fishers of men.” It’s something we naturally become as we are following Jesus. Is it possible that if we are truly following Jesus we are naturally doing our one thing?
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