RRR_discipling_purpose

 


 Purpose. Remember. With purpose — remember purpose. Remember that not only does your life, your witness, and your helping people become better learners, being taken back to Jesus has a purpose. But there is a purpose behind that purpose. Which is that there is an overall, overarching purpose that is taking place. 

We’ve all heard the mysterious tales — or shall we say truths, as the best description — from Isaiah of the war in heaven. Michael and the angels, and in the Revelation of Christ, this is going on. We see these massive displays of power. And we know that at one time, Lucifer and a third of his angelic host turned against God and were thrown down to earth. We know they are eternal beings. We know they don’t just go away. Where are they? 

Well, there are lots of mysteries in the Bible. There are lots of mysteries in worshipping God. There are lots of mysteries in loving, in worshipping, in asking forgiveness. Human beings confessing and repenting with Christ — so that His blood can cover our sins, and we can be born again, and we can be born into the Kingdom of God. It’s a mystery. But remembering purpose is something necessary. Something that needs to be ongoing. 

One of the things you must never let happen is this: don’t let people who can’t see past the end of their noses steal your purpose. Don’t let them drag you down to a lower level of excitement, faith, or joy. We are to be encouraging and supporting each other as we minister and disciple others. Because that is our purpose, is it not? Is it not our purpose to be supportive, to be encouraging, to be uplifting one another in the name of Jesus? Not cutting each other down. Not negatively destroying one another. Not coming after someone with some negative impression or feelings or things we believe we’re right about and think we have the right to say. No — sometimes we have to push into remembering purpose, and understand that the purpose of Jesus, among many others, is that we would learn to be seeds. Seeds that are going to have to die. Seeds that are going to have to germinate in order to bring forth other seeds. And often, that process is not without pain. 

 So your disciples need to know not only that you love them, not only that you care about them, not only that you’re involved with them, not only that they matter to you, and not only that they matter to the body of Christ — but that you are encouraging them to keep on with the purpose of what it is Christ has called them toward. Paul called it the grand calling of the gospel of Jesus Christ heavenward toward God. And I think that’s a pretty powerful prescription, don’t you?

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