After my wife and I find a new church home, I've come to realize that I need serious discipling. I've lost a lot of ground during Covid. This is a multipart discussion so please contribute to one part even if you don't want to respond to all.
First, has anyone had a discipleship experience they want to share?
What should I expect as a disciple? After thinking about this for awhile, I've coming to realize the best analogy is marriage counseling. Instead of me and the wife, it's me and God. I don't want this to become self-help therapy - manage anger, family responsibilities, what happened this week, etc. These will probably come up in the course of discussion but I really don't them to become the focus.
What should I be looking for in a discipler? Certainly a man who has strong belief and relationship with God. Ability and desire to help others grow in their relationship with God. I think, also, someone who has a good handle on the difference between the essentials and non-essentials.
If you were going to be a discipler, what would you see as your role and how would you do it?
While I don't see this as a rest of my life activity, just a more disciplined time-commitment for a period, I also don't want it to be one or two meetings and done. I'm guessing at least a year? My hope is at the end I have a relationship with God such that He is more present and more discipling of me than now.
On a side note, I've heard about people providing spiritual guidance. When I look around here for people that do that, generally they seem to be non-Christians. Do you think spiritual guidance and discipleship are the same thing or something different? Is there overlap?
First, has anyone had a discipleship experience they want to share?
What should I expect as a disciple? After thinking about this for awhile, I've coming to realize the best analogy is marriage counseling. Instead of me and the wife, it's me and God. I don't want this to become self-help therapy - manage anger, family responsibilities, what happened this week, etc. These will probably come up in the course of discussion but I really don't them to become the focus.
What should I be looking for in a discipler? Certainly a man who has strong belief and relationship with God. Ability and desire to help others grow in their relationship with God. I think, also, someone who has a good handle on the difference between the essentials and non-essentials.
If you were going to be a discipler, what would you see as your role and how would you do it?
While I don't see this as a rest of my life activity, just a more disciplined time-commitment for a period, I also don't want it to be one or two meetings and done. I'm guessing at least a year? My hope is at the end I have a relationship with God such that He is more present and more discipling of me than now.
On a side note, I've heard about people providing spiritual guidance. When I look around here for people that do that, generally they seem to be non-Christians. Do you think spiritual guidance and discipleship are the same thing or something different? Is there overlap?
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