| A Reform Movement to Call the Church Back to Making Disciples |
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| Written by Patrick Morley |
| Sunday, August 12 2007 19:00 |
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One day a highly placed executive in one of America’s largest evangelical denominations told me, “In our denomination, we are not making disciples. And that’s because our pastors have never been discipled.” Later, my wife and I were having dinner with the president of a seminary and his wife. I told him what the denominational leader (from a different denomination) had said. He lamented, “Well, I’m not surprised. We find that when our students arrive, they have never been discipled. And we have no plans to disciple them while they’re here.” So here’s the (admittedly oversimplified) picture: Christians who have never been discipled are called to seminary where they are not discipled, then they become pastors of churches where their principle responsibility is to make disciples. Talk about an elephant in the living room! The full article is available FREE to registered users. Please SIGN UP or LOGIN to view. |