Ken_lamb
Puritan Board Freshman
Gentlemen,
It's been a while since I've posted anything here. I've been pretty busy with my 1 year old and pregnant wife. But now we are a family of four, so I guess I have even less time these days.
I was wondering how the reformed tradition has handled such issues as discipleship. It seems like the discipleship that we see in scripture looks more like what today we might call missionary work. If that is the case, what should discipleship look like within the context of our own culture? Sometimes I get to feeling like we expect people to become disciples on their own without investing in them personally.
Is modern reformed discipleship one on one mentorship, Sunday school education, bible studies, anyone or all of these.
I'm not such a new Christian these days but have long desired discipleship, with the intended purpose of inviting involvement into my life by Godly men to correct, encourage, and generally sanctify my walk. It seems like this sort of involvement is foreign to many men in the church. The church was not a part of my upbringing, which I why I now look to the church for such things.
Have you had personal discipleship/mentoring within the context of your churches? What did it look like? Did it work well, building up men qualifying them for office in the church?
Of course the bible ought to be our source of learning but is there a curriculum that might help older men mentor the younger men?
I appreciate your feedback.
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It's been a while since I've posted anything here. I've been pretty busy with my 1 year old and pregnant wife. But now we are a family of four, so I guess I have even less time these days.
I was wondering how the reformed tradition has handled such issues as discipleship. It seems like the discipleship that we see in scripture looks more like what today we might call missionary work. If that is the case, what should discipleship look like within the context of our own culture? Sometimes I get to feeling like we expect people to become disciples on their own without investing in them personally.
Is modern reformed discipleship one on one mentorship, Sunday school education, bible studies, anyone or all of these.
I'm not such a new Christian these days but have long desired discipleship, with the intended purpose of inviting involvement into my life by Godly men to correct, encourage, and generally sanctify my walk. It seems like this sort of involvement is foreign to many men in the church. The church was not a part of my upbringing, which I why I now look to the church for such things.
Have you had personal discipleship/mentoring within the context of your churches? What did it look like? Did it work well, building up men qualifying them for office in the church?
Of course the bible ought to be our source of learning but is there a curriculum that might help older men mentor the younger men?
I appreciate your feedback.
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