I’m
tired. I’m tired of the posts and ads and quick fixes. I’m tired of the
head-scratching and magic bullet appeals for how to “reach” millennials. I’m
tired of marketing tricks and demographic reports that promise to hold the key
to attracting customers. In conversations about the problems with the church, with
mainline decline, with the “nones,” etc., in our culture today, I hear
recommendations for everything from increasing parking to Instagram to
inclusivism, and many sure-fire fixes in between. What I hear woefully little
of is the need to make disciples…real disciples.
Churches and leaders feel the need to add
descriptors to the word disciples: dynamic
disciples, fully-committed disciples,
faithful disciples, disciple-making disciples, and on and on.
This need for qualifiers indicates to me that we have a weak and desperately
underdeveloped understanding of what a disciple even is. And, thus, we don’t see the value and
necessity for disciple-making as the cure for what ails us.
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