Joining Jesus - Show Me How-3

 Mission Focus, Purpose

Challenges, Direction

These are all topics that churches 

wrestle with and make plans 

for and meet about, and then meet some more.

One of the things we know about millennials - 

they don't do meetings.

So they are not only missing 

from our churches but they are missing 

from the conversations 

about why they are missing.

Greg Finke's work with Dwelling1:14 

offer these great questions for conversation starters:

1. What is the mission of God, according to God?
2. How does God intend for us to participate in His mission?
3. In the gospels, what is Jesus’ goal for those He is discipling?
4. According to Jesus, what is a disciple and what does a disciple do?
5. In the gospels, what process does Jesus use to train His disciples?
6. How can we optimize our congregational groups and gatherings to accomplish Jesus’ discipling goals?

 These questions bring time together

 looking at the right things-

how do disciples make disciples?

It is not about budgets, 

attendance, weekly offerings,

and leaky roofs.

Those all need to be dealt with but,

 they are not the MAIN THING.

 What I really appreciate reading

 in Greg's book- Joining Jesus - Show Me How

 or his blog at dwelling114.org

is that I can actually imagine Jesus

 sitting around and talking with his disciples

using these very questions.

It is Jesus Discipleship Class 101.

And I am reminded how many times

 Jesus had to go over the lessons with them,

 repeat the main point, 

and review when they failed the test.

Simple enough..

go and make disciples.