Disciple: Being One, Making One

I hope you have been challenged and inspired by the sermon focus this Fall on Discipleship. We have called it, Disciple: Being One, Making One. We talked last Sunday about how a disciple of Jesus Christ is one who has been transformed and is being transformed by God's grace. This Sunday we will turn to what it means to make a disciple. This is one that we have the hardest time with. Please read Matthew 28: 16-20 this week. In it, Jesus makes clear to the first disciples and to we present day disciples, that making disciples is our business. Being Biblical Christians means taking seriously this, which is known as "The Great Commission."
Before we are overwhelmed with that responsibility, Jesus reminds us in that passage that he is with us, not just now or tomorrow or this year but "to the end of the age," meaning until Christ comes again.
I have a book on my desk I am reading a little at a time called "Making Disciples - One conversation at a time." In it, the author Michael Henderson emphasizes one key thing among others - relationship. Trusted relationships with the people in our lives and building trusted relationships with new people, is the beginning of disciple-making. Of course we remember all the time that while we make disciples, we continue to be formed as disciples ourselves.
I'm grateful to share the journey of discipleship with you.