In the final part of this short series, Kev Clark ties together some of the thoughts about discipleship that have been presented in the previous talks - this time looking at how if we are serious about discipleship we have a individual responsibility but the church has an important role to play.

 

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In 1 Thes 5:12-24 Paul tells us to hold our church leaders in the highest regard because of their work. It is important to hold everybody who is part of our church in the highest regard - including the leader. Not because the leader is any “better” - in fact if anyone thinks that they are qualified to lead a church is probably not suitable! What we are qualified for is to be a disciple, a learner - being actively engaged at becoming more like Jesus.

What do we need to learn as a church?

• be patient with everyone
• encourage the timid
• help the weak

Mosaic (in Thame) and Pure are about training, enabling, and releasing young people to leadership - and this applies to the church in general: this means that we have to allow less experienced people to fail, to fall over, but support them and help them get up again and move on.

A mark of discipleship is that we don’t pay back wrong for wrong - we do not deal in revenge.

Paul encourages us to pray continually and be joyful always - what do we have to be thankful for? You don’t need to go to the Phillipines to realise how much we have going for us in this country.

 

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Recorded by Kev Clark

Kev is the lay leader of the Pathway fellowship. Married to Binky, and has 3 children - and is a dab hand at DIY and has interesting views on fancy goldfish