We have created a culture of leadership "development" in the Church at the expense of ignore the ministry of the Church to making disciples.
Good disciplemaking requires both intentionality and relationality. It means being strategic and being social. Most of us are bent one way or the other. We__e naturally relational, but lacking in intentionality. Or we find it easy to be intentional, but not relational. We typically tip (or sometimes lean) one way or the other as we begin the disciplemaking process. But tipping and leaning won__ cover the full picture of what life-on-life disciplemaking requires. It__ not just friend-to-friend, and it__ not just teacher-to-student. It__ both. There is the sharing of ordinary life (relationship) and seeking to initiate and make the most of teachable moments (intentionality). There are the long walks through Galilee and the sermons on the mount. Disciplemaking is both organic and engineered, relational and intentional, with shared context and shared content, quality and quantity time.
Habits of Grace: Enjoying Jesus through the Spiritual Disciplines
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Good disciplemaking requires both intentionality and relationality. It means being strategic and being social. Most of us are bent one way or the other. We__e naturally relational, but lacking in intentionality. Or we find it easy to be intentional, but not relational. We typically tip (or sometimes lean) one way or the other as we begin the disciplemaking process. But tipping and leaning won__ cover the full picture of what life-on-life disciplemaking requires. It__ not just friend-to-friend, and it__ not just teacher-to-student. It__ both. There is the sharing of ordinary life (relationship) and seeking to initiate and make the most of teachable moments (intentionality). There are the long walks through Galilee and the sermons on the mount. Disciplemaking is both organic and engineered, relational and intentional, with shared context and shared content, quality and quantity time.
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