Disciple Making in Wet Cement

Individual disciple making must precede a corporate culture of disciple making.

As a leader of a developing local church, I am reminded that we are now creating culture of a local church in wet cement. But not for long.  Before many more months, the cement will harden and we will be able to clearly discern whether we have a disciple making culture or just a bunch of people attending a Sunday gathering.

Before the cement sets, the only way in which I see hope for creating a disciple-making culture is to rally a young church around one clear, concise, and compelling goal:  Multiply disciples.s 

Don’t depend on me to do it for you.
Don’t depend on our Sunday gathering to make it happen.

But YOU, individually...daily, consistently, passionately pour your life out into someone else and obey the Great Commission by “teaching them to do all the things Jesus commanded.”

Rallying people around this one goal while the concrete is still wet is the only alternative we have for not simply becoming another building, show, or routine obligation.

And to be honest this is both scary and exciting at the same time. Scary, because I know with every passing day the concrete of our church culture is setting. And if it doesn’t set properly, the only option will be to bust it up and start over.

Exciting, because I know that if it sets properly, multiplying disciples will be the heartbeat of the local church until Jesus returns.