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ISSUE TWO 2012
KINGDOM
MISUNDERSTOOD
THE
(Part 4)
equip to disciple | ISSUE TWO 2012
What to
Charles Dunahoo, Coordinator of CEP
expect
engage:
from the Editor
• The Kingdom
MISUNDERSTOOD (Part 4)
The Body of Christ, The Next
Generations ..........................4
Discipling the Entire Covenant Family
Welcome to the Spring Edition of Equip to Disciple. In the three previ-
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ous issues we have been focusing on the Kingdom of God and His Church
• Children’s & Youth
plus how they relate to one another and what God has assigned to each. We
Ministries ............................10
have observed the church’s role is to make kingdom disciples who can then
• Equip Tip .............................11
move out into the broader kingdom, to have a godly, salt and light influence on the world
• Men’s Ministries .................12
around them. The church trains those in the army, referring to the people of the church, to be
endorse:
equipped and prepared to live for Christ in the world.
• Book Reviews ......................15
In the Winter issue we focused on developing a strategy for making kingdom disciples
among the adult members of the church. Descriptions, ideas, and suggestions were made in
the article. In this issue I have asked Sue Jakes, our Christian education specialist in children’s
ministry, and Danny Mitchell, CEP consultant with youth and family ministries, to do the same
with the youth and children’s strategy. CEP’s role in the PCA is mainly to provide training and
resources for local churches to assist them in their task of disciple making.
You will also find helpful ideas from Dennis Bennett, CEP Coordinator of Resources,
regarding the parent’s role in the process. In addition to that you will find a helpful article by
Gary Yagel, CEP consultant in men’s ministries, regarding men’s discipling.
I hope our message is clear. Kingdom disciples are made primarily by and through the local
church. That is the commission Jesus gave us in Matthew 28:18,19. And, when Jesus said we are
to seek first the kingdom of God…the church’s role is to obey, and we do that first and foremost
through discipling men, women, youth and children.
Through our seminars, conferences, bookstore and video library resources, women’s and
men’s ministry, as well as with our children and youth focus, we are here to serve and assist
you. Making disciples is a team effort. It does take a covenant family to disciple its covenant
people of all ages.
Together in His Service
Discipling
God’s
covenant
people with
a kingdom
world and
life focus
provides
the setting
through
which we
minister.
Coordinator.
P.S. Don’t miss the book reviews!
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THE
KINGDOM
MISUNDERSTOOD
(PART 4)
Editor’s Note: If you have not read parts one, two or three in the previous editions of
Equip to Disciple, or you do not have a copy of those issues, please go to the CEP website
at www.pcacep.org where you will find part one entitled, The Kingdom Misunderstood, part
two entitled, Should the Church Separate, Identify, Transform, or...?, and part three entitled,
The Body of Christ, Shaping the Kingdom.
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A Strategy for
Discipling Our
Children and
Youth
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n our Christian Education and Publications training events,
we use the phrase “the whole Gospel for the whole church.”
We have been asked what we mean by that, to which we
have responded: Kingdom discipleship focuses on the whole
truth of Scripture, and its audience is the entire church at all
age levels.
In Making Kingdom Disciples a New Framework, we point
out that Calvin’s emphasis regarding making disciples begins
at the earliest stages of a covenant person’s life. The sooner we
begin to self-consciously disciple our covenant children, the
easier it will be for them to see themselves as covenant children
belonging to God’s kingdom and that being a Christian is not
only about going to church, or personally believing in Jesus, or
reading or hearing the Bible, but every day of the week in all
things we are to live for Christ. He is Lord of all. As we have
said many times, discipleship involves “teaching to observe all
things that God has commanded” and that is connected with
baptism. It involves helping our children understand who they
are, as well as who God is. As we teach them by the Word and
example, our prayer is that they will soon claim for themselves
that reality.
In the three previous issues of Equip to Disciple we have
focused on: What is the kingdom? What is the church? How
do they relate, and what is their respective roles in God’s
sovereign plan? As the covenant family, we must obey the
Lord’s command expressed in both commissions referred to in
previous articles.
I have asked Ms.Sue Jakes,our Christian education specialist
who focuses on children’s ministry, and our youth and family
consultant, Danny Mitchell, to give us their ideas about how a
local church can implement a plan of disciple-making with
our families, children, and youth. You will recall in the previous
issue of Equip to Disciple, we made suggestions for the adult
education or discipleship strategy.
A Local Church Children’s
Ministry Focused on Making
Kingdom Disciples
If nothing else will bring you to the throne of grace begging
for mercy and wisdom, the responsibility of discipling children
will. And the whole body of Christ has that responsibility.
Before we consider each portion of our duty, we must pray that
we would never hinder, but always aid, our children’s journey
into and through the Kingdom. We must also pray daily for the
children in our home and church, that the Spirit will work in
their hearts that they might become true Jesus men and women.
The most strategic place for making Kingdom disciples in
the local church is in the ministry to children. Not only are the
children learning and growing, but also all who are teaching
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and leading are growing as disciples in the process. Most
educators agree that one does not truly know anything until
he teaches it, and as we teach the Word to young children we
can expect it to be life-changing, not only for them, but for us.
The foundation of our disciple making ministry for children
should be the true teaching of the Word which conforms to
what is being preached from the pulpit. Great Commission
Publications’ Show Me Jesus curriculum teaches the whole
counsel of God, seeing Christ in all of scripture, and trains the
teachers to communicate the gospel story in every lesson.
Whether this complete Bible curriculum is used in Sunday
school or some other Bible instruction setting, it should be
foundational in the training of the children in your church.
In conjunction with the knowledge of the Word
which leads us to Christ, children must be indoctrinated,
understanding what they believe and why. For centuries the
church has catechized her children. We must not stop now,
but if we have ceased this practice, we must begin again. Very
few catechism programs in the church are successful without
strong parental involvement. If you have a special program
intended for catechism memory, parents should be guided in
their home study and memory work with their children.
A kingdom disciple is not only one who knows King
Jesus, but one who loves, serves, and thinks like King Jesus.
How do we begin to take our children from the classical
should be praying. They must watch us pray, pray with us,
and then be encouraged to pray continually. Serving the
family, the Body, and the community is also using their faith
language. As we find each child’s gifts by exploring what they
love to do, we must then give them many occasions to serve
others. Children should also have the opportunity to verbally
communicate what has been imparted to them. Again, we
tell them all that we know, but do they really know it until
they have to teach it themselves? Often times we shy away
from having older children teach younger, but this is still the
best training ground if they are going to be disciple-makers
themselves. And isn’t this the only true measure that we
have made a disciple – that they become disciple-makers
themselves?
Are we teaching our children to take every thought
captive to Christ? Are we defining the culture through the
Kingdom grid? The church and home must come together
continually and ask these questions, holding one another
accountable to the task of training our children by God’s
Deuteronomy 6 method. We must talk of these things when
we rise up.
Do our families begin the day with Kingdom talk, giving
God’s purpose for the day that he has made? And when we
sit down, are we reading the Word at home around the meal
table, discussing truth and how we apply it to all of life? And
A kingdom disciple knows the King,
serves the King and thinks like the King.
grammar stage of their faith into the logical and rhetorical
living out of what they believe? A standard component of
our ministry to children must be parental training. It is the
serving, giving, loving, obedient parent who will most likely
produce a serving, giving, loving, obedient child. Again, this
is a heart issue, but no person can see a parent’s heart better
than their own child. They are blessings in this way – always
reminding us of our need of saving grace. As we know and
see the needs of each individual child, the church’s ministry
is to ask what we can do to aid the parent in bringing the
child to Christ. This is the gospel message – Jesus came down
to earth, becoming man, and we must meet every child and
family where they are, while knowing that our God is faithful.
He is most glorified when the most difficult circumstances
are overcome each day by the work of his grace. True
kingdom ministry is never trying to get around a special
need, but looking for the power of God to work mightily in it.
As a child sees the gospel in everyday living, he must be
given every opportunity to use his faith language. Children
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when we walk along the way (or drive in the car), are we
spending our time wisely preparing our hearts for Kingdom
work, singing his songs, telling his stories? And when we lie
down, do we remember his good deeds and pray for all those
who we are called to remember and serve? Life is war and
our children must be armed for it on every front.
It is time to raise our expectations for the next generation
of Kingdom disciples. But as we raise our expectations we
must also raise our commitment to the task to which God has
called us. Examine your home and church. Are we getting
by with programs and ideas that we hope will work out in
the end? Or do we have a clear vision about what we are
to do and how we are to implement God’s plan for making
Kingdom disciples? You can read this and be overwhelmed or
overjoyed. We must be overjoyed that God would continually
entrust us with his children and his promise. He will be God
to our children and our children’s children. And as we obey
him in his commission to make disciples by populating the
world with the next generation of Christians, we must never
be overwhelmed because he has all authority in heaven and
on earth, and he is with us.
A Kingdom Disciple-making
Youth Ministry
Most churches will at some point wrestle with the
question of purpose for their ministry to the next generation.
The answer to this foundational question becomes the
destination point that the entirety of the youth program
is moving toward. In the same way that a GPS needs the
destination point in order to tell you how to get there, a youth
ministry needs a desired outcome to be able to chart the
best course of action. Without a well-thought out, biblicallyinformed, easily-understood purpose, your youth ministry
will waste valuable time on programs that do little more
than entertain the rising generation. For this reason, every
church should not only do the work necessary to answer
the question of purpose in ministry to youth, but it should
regularly use that purpose as the lens with which the youth
program is evaluated.
In youth ministry,our first inclination is to judge a program
by numbers. Our second inclination is to try to decide the
effectiveness of what we do by determining how much fun
our students had at a particular event. Unfortunately, we
are often further down the list of ministry critiques before
we start analyzing our program based on whether or not
Kingdom disciples are being produced. It is a sad indictment
for any church that would believe that their ministry to the
next generation is doing its job because 100 youth went on
the ski trip or they all had an awesome time at the lock-in.
That is not to knock the value of these types of events in a
youth program. Youth need
places within the body of Christ to have fun. However, the
call of the Church is to make disciples, teaching them to
obey all that Christ has commanded. This is the basis and
purpose of our ministry to rising generations. It is also the
standard by which we should judge our youth programs.
How does your annual trip to the slopes of Colorado help
your church develop your youth as Kingdom disciples? Or,
for that matter, how does helping with recreation at VBS help
a teenager become a Kingdom disciple? By asking these
kinds of questions, your church can more effectively use its
resources to grow the next generation into a generation that
seeks after the Lord.
Whether your church decides to continue, cancel or add
a ski trip to Colorado is a decision that can be made at any
point. There are any number of disciple-making reasons to
decide to go, and any number of reasons that a church would
decide not to. In other words, the methodology of disciplemaking in youth ministry can vary from church to church.
One example that several churches in our denomination
are dealing with, concerning their youth programs, has to do
with summer mission trips. Traditionally, youth ministries go
on a summer mission trip. There was a time that many of us
felt that that the more exotic the locale, the more effective
the trip would be. Getting students out of their comfort zone;
so we scoured the globe for just the right comfort-stretching
location. In an attempt to be missional in our “Jerusalem,”
the trend over the past few years has been to look closer
to home for our summer youth mission experience. Both
types of trips can be effective in helping grow your students
into Kingdom disciples. Your youth ministry decision-makers
can make that call. The kingdom disciple-making principle
here is that the youth of your church need to be engaged
in outreach ministries; ideally, both global and local, but
the ministry context of a particular church and
available resources will drive that decision.
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learning what is going on in youth culture. At most, we will
have three or four opportunities (Sunday school, sermon,
youth group and discipleship group) each week to teach
the Word to the students in our church. That is maybe
four hours out of each week. This is why we must take
every opportunity to teach the next generation seriously.
At the same time, we need to be equipping our youth with
the resources to study, understand and apply the Word
on their own. Neglecting this step can cost your students
dearly as they move out into the world without the ability
to understand and apply the Word without someone
telling them how.
There are several other kingdom disciple-making
principles that should be part of any youth program. Before
we go further, it may be helpful to give a working definition
of a Kingdom disciple. A Kingdom disciple is someone who
thinks God’s thoughts after Him and applies them to all of life.
That is what your church should be striving toward with its
youth ministry. That is the answer to the question of purpose
for next generation ministries. The next step is to think
about the kingdom disciple-making principles that come
from our purpose and should be part of your youth
program. From these principles, your church should make
its programmatic decisions.
1. Knowing the Word:
2. Teaching the Word:
Every church needs to work to effectively teach the Word
of God to its teenagers. Using biblically strong material like
Great Commission and Publications’ So What? youth Bible
studies is important. However, you also need teachers of
the Word who know how to apply it to this generation of
teenagers. This requires that adults be willing to spend
adequate time in teaching preparation, time listening
to the struggles and joys of their youth, and time
Students need opportunities within the safety of the Body
of Christ to teach the word of God to younger children
and youth. Teaching the Word not only forces the student
to learn it but also moves them into the process of
becoming a disciple-maker. This is a scary thought
for some churches because teenagers are…
well… teenagers, and they say and do teenage
things. Relax. God has been using our weakness to
perfect his power since… well… adults ate from the Tree
of Knowledge of Good and Evil and were cast out of the
Garden of Eden.
Kingdom General
• Cultural Mandates (all things Christ Preeminent )
• Common Grace
• Creation
Election
• Creation of Man
Special Grace
(image of God)
Spiritual Life
• Believers &
Redemption
Unbelievers
Reconciliation
• Ethics
• Morality
Kingdom Special
• Politics
Church/Church Instruction
• Math
Forgiveness
Word
& Sacraments
• Science
Spiritual Disciplines
• History
Great Commission
• Arts
3. Modeling the Word:
God’s
Common
Grace
• Family
• Governments
• Education
• Mercy
New Creation in Christ
(Making Kingdom
Disciples)
This is so important that doing it justice in a few
short sentences is not possible. The bottom
line is that the next generation needs adults
in their lives who will form meaningful
relationships with them for extended
periods of time. And here is the crazy
part: youth desire relationships with
adults who will listen and speak into
their lives. This is not just a biblical
mandate for God’s covenant people
but modern-day research is saying the
same thing. You can read researchers
like George Barna, Christian Smith,
Walt Mueller, and Chap Clark to verify
the claim that was just made. The
youth in your church need…YOU.
4. Living the Word:
The youth in your church need to learn
how to live and function in community.
Youth group gatherings can be good
places for this to happen. They can force
Kingdom of God (in unity)
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students to deal with conflict, with other personalities and
with the opposite sex within a structured environment.
However, they need to learn to do this within the multigenerational Body of Christ as well. This means constantly
isolating the youth from the rest of the church stunts their
growth as functional members of the Body.
5. Spreading the Word:
Youth need to be trained and have opportunity to be
engaged in outreach ministry.
6. Praying the Word:
Studies show that Christians stink at praying. Studies also
show that we, adults, are reproducing ourselves in the next
generation. If A + B = C in this case,then the next generation
is not going to be known as a praying generation. Do your
students know the value of praying? Have they seen it
modeled within the youth program?
Any point when multiple kingdom disciple-making
principles are happening at once is a special youth ministry
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moment. This is often one sign that a youth ministry is thinking
in terms of Kingdom disciple-making. One example of how
we do this at CEP is our YXL (Youth eXcelling in Leadership)
conference where all six of these principles are happening
in one conference. The website www.yxl.pcacep.org has
information about all three YXL conferences. Youth Sunday
school is a place in the local church to re-imagine by using the
kingdom-disciple paradigm. It is a time that should be more
than just about knowing the Word. How many other of the
principles should come into play if we just ask the question
“How effective is our youth Sunday school at producing
Kingdom disciples?”
For a multitude of reasons, raising the next generation is
not an easy call God has given to His people, but it is a critical
call. At the same time, it is a call that we should delight in
helping to fulfill. Perhaps the greatest delight is that the call
comes to the whole Covenant Community, not just a handful
of brave volunteers or paid staff in your church. It is only when
we join together as God’s people that will we most effectively
grow the next generation into Kingdom disciples. May God
find us to be faithful stewards of this call! e
The Church...that is the theme of
at Covenant College this year, July 9-14, 2012. Are there students in your church
who show leadership potential who you would like to invest in and send to YXL?
During the week we will explore with the YXL
students these 3 questions:
• What is the Church?
• What is your role in the Church?
• What is the role of the Church in the Kingdom?
Our belief at CEP is that Christ loves His Bride
and if we claim to love and follow Christ then we
should love the Bride as well. With the Lord’s
blessing, we hope to help YXL students do just that
during our week together, through the teaching of
the Word and through leadership activities.
Who should attend: Students in grades 9-12 who show leadership potential.
Cost: $425/student (before June 1st). We also need leaders.
Website to visit: www.yxl.pcacep.org (YXL camps are also held in Pennsylvania and Colorado).
Would your church consider sponsoring a student or leader to attend YXL?
Please let your students know about YXL!
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How We Teach and How They Learn – Part 13
The Family That…Deuteronomy “6s” Together
On this night, let’s say it is Monday;
there are rules which must be followed:
Rule One - we eat at an agreed
time. Clean-up can either be
done right after dinner if the kids
are involved, or it can wait until
after the young ones are in bed.
Games – this is a wonderful way to spend time together.
It can also be used to discuss topics like godly ethics
or money management when playing a game such as
Monopoly or Careers. Most games are played to be won.
But what if the objective of the game were to see who could
be the most helpful to someone else
or the most philanthropic?
Included in the evening could be
Bible and/or catechism memory and
explanation. I remember using Susan
& Richie Hunt’s Big Truths for Little
Kids, and even though our kids were
older when they came to live with us, it
was an effective teaching tool.
Sue Jakes gave me this idea: If
your church is using GCP curriculum
in SS there is a family time idea in
the toddler, preschool, and early
elementary take-home paper every
week. If you don’t use the specific
idea, it would be a great time to have
each child report on the SS lesson.
Your church pays for those take-home
papers for a reason – so that the
Bible truths will find their way into the
family’s life and conversation during
the next week.
Focus on the Family has a series of
books available to help with the teaching and fun times,
called the Family Night Tool Chest dealing with holidays,
basic Christian beliefs, Ten Commandments, Proverbs, and
wisdom life skills.
If your family is doing something you think other families
might like to try, email me the details, and I will either list
them in the next Equip or post them on our website and
let you know in the next issue where you can find these
helps. We are a connectional denomination, and this is one
way we can help each other stay connected. My email is
[email protected].
It is sad to admit this, but the Mormons are far ahead
of us on this. Every Monday night, in every Mormon home,
they are meeting to have fun and learn the ways of their
non-Christian cult. We can do so much better. Will you? e
Family Ministries
If
your schedule is anything like mine, there is little
time left over. However, when I am honest with
myself and my schedule, there always seems to
be time to do what I want.
The Levites in the OT were appointed to be the teachers
in Israel. Elders do this in the NT
along with those who have the gift of
teaching. All three are told specifically
to teach adults. The only instructions
God gives for teaching the children
are given to their parents.
Because of all that invades our lives
on a daily basis, we just don’t seem to
have the time to set aside for teaching
our children. But there may be a way
we can do something, at least to start.
How about making a family decision to
set apart one night a week, preferably
the same night each week? This day
must become sacred and special to all
and only the most critical interruption
will be allowed to break this pledge.
Because of all
that invades our
lives on a daily
basis, we just don’t
seem to have the
time to set aside
for teaching our
children.
Rule Two – the TV and computer are off limits! This
will be hard for some, but all addictions must be
conquered.
Rule Three – plan to have fun!
This is a night for the family to spend together, enjoying
each other’s company, regardless of the ages of the children.
This is not a night for a two-hour Bible study. However, a
study or devotional time should be a regular part of the
evening, as we always want the children to see Christ as
the center of everything we do, be it Bible study or fun. The
length of the evening depends on the ages of the children
and how engaged they get in the discussion.
— Dennis Bennett, Coordinator of Resources
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Where
Do I Find
More
Disciplers
For My
Men?
By Gary Yagel
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hat pastor has not asked
himself this question? What
ruling elder has not wished
he had more time to spend with the
men under his care? What church
leader hasn’t recognized the truth that
if the church could better disciple its
men, everyone—wives, children, the
church, the community, the culture—
would benefit?
Most of us have seen first-hand the
benefits of one-on-one discipleship.
I saw a brother that God allowed
me to lead to Christ go off to Penn
State and grow enormously through
his involvement with the Navigators.
My wife, also, was discipled by the
Navigators during her time at Virginia
Tech. The power of the multiplication
model of discipleship is undeniable.
In Dawson Trotman’s booklet, Born
to Reproduce, he points out that if a
Christian led someone to faith every 6
months and trained that new Christian
to do the same, the whole world would
be evangelized in 15 ½ years!
This
mentoring / multiplication
methodology was formative in my
early thinking about discipleship. To
“disciple” someone was synonymous
with “mentoring” them, and I saw the
power of the multiplication principle
proved by the effectiveness of the
Navigator ministry around the world. I
began to see this mentor/multiplication
methodology as normative for the
church. After all, didn’t Jesus “disciple”
the twelve and then expect them to
“disciple” younger believers? Doesn’t
2 Timothy 2:2 teach this multiplication
principle, “and what you have heard
from me in the presence of many
witnesses entrust to faithful men who
will be able to teach others also?”
I set out as a church planter with the
goal of discipling my elders, expecting
them to turn around and disciple those
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under their care. Despite having great
elders, this approach totally failed. I did
meet with my elders one-on-one, but
they were not “disciplers” as I was using
the term. In subsequent years I have
worked with hundreds of PCA churches
(in my role as men’s ministry coach) and
though there may be exceptions, I have
yet to see the mentor/multiplication
model that works so well in the
Navigators, work in the local church.
Perhaps this model is the normative
model of discipleship for the church,
and we are just not working it properly
or not committed enough to it, or both.
But, could it be that we need to rethink
what the normative biblical model is
for discipleship?
What was Jesus’ discipleship
methodology? Certainly he mentored
the twelve. But there is no record that
he had lunch with just Peter on Monday,
with just James on Tuesday, or just
John on Wednesday. His discipleship
methodology was to call his disciples
to be a part of a band of brothers. The
book of Acts does not reveal a record
of church growth in which each of
the twelve chose two or three men to
“disciple” for awhile, who then each
discipled another few men. Paul did
have his Timothy; certainly mentoring is
appropriate and wise. But the evidence
does not support the premise that a
mentoring/multiplication model was
the normative method for “making
disciples” as we are commanded to do
in Matthew 28.
It must also be pointed out that
2 Timothy 2:2 “and that which you
have heard from me in the presence
of many witnesses entrust to reliable
men who will be able to teach others
also” does not support the mentoring/
multiplication method of discipleship
as normative either. This verse is not
talking about Paul’s one-on-one time
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(band of brothers or sisters) or a Jonathan and David type
of relationship.
Second, the topic of discussion is truth. The meeting
agenda is applying the truth of Scripture to everyday life.
That is what Jesus said disciples do…”teaching them to
observe everything I have commanded you” (Matt. 28:20).
A further aspect of speaking the truth is being transparent,
honest with one another. Such below-the-surface connection
requires the growth of trust within the group.
The third component is the developing of a bond of
love. Undergirding the honest application of Scripture to
each person’s life is a growing love for one another. It is
in the context of this real connection that the numerous
one-another commands of Scripture are best lived out:
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discipling Timothy (a PRIVATE matter)—but about ensuring
that sound teaching continue in the church at a time when
the New Testament had not yet been completed. Paul’s
focus is his PUBLIC TEACHING, “that which you’ve heard
from me in the presence of many witnesses—not his
PRIVATE DISCIPLESHIP meetings with Timothy. Paul wants
the content of his teaching, i.e. the gospel, passed on “to
reliable men who are able to teach (not disciple) others.”
If the normative process for discipleship is not the
mentoring/multiplication model, what is? Paul reveals it
to us in his letter to the Ephesians, his letter that is most
focused on the normative life of the church.
“Speaking the truth in love, we are to
grow up in every way into him who is the
head, into Christ, from whom the whole
body, joined and held together by every
joint with which it is equipped, when each
part is working properly, makes the body
grow so that it builds itself up in love”
(4:15-16).
The normative biblical discipleship process by which the
members of the body grow into Christ is to get each member
connected in Christ’s body so that they are speaking the
truth to one another in love.
There are three vital parts to this normative discipleship
process. First the group dynamics must promote the
speaking of every person. The group for connection may,
on some occasions be large, where the teaching elder uses
his gifts to proclaim the Word; but there must also be a small
enough connection that each member participates. The
emphasis in this text on every member connection cannot
be denied. Thus, what is in view is a small group connection
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What was Jesus’
discipleship
methodology?
encourage one another, stir one another up to love and
good deeds, admonish one another, confess your sins to
one another, etc.
The normative process for making disciples is to
get members regularly connected below the surface to
discuss the application of Scripture to their everyday
lives, being connected to the body through a genuine
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bond of love. Now it is clear why the Navigator’s mentoring/
multiplication method is so powerful. It does exactly what
Eph. 4:15-16 says builds up the body! It gets men with men or
women with women connected in a bond of love to regularly
discuss how Scripture applies to life. That is what makes the
mentoring/multiplication method of discipleship so powerful.
So, we must praise God for those who are called to mentor
and turn them loose in the body to use their gifts!
But Eph. 4:15-16 does not imply that the connections in the
body that build it up are older Christian/younger Christian or
that groups are expected as groups to multiply. The goal of
church leadership is not to find enough “disciplers” to mentor
each man or woman in the body. It is to get each member
of the body connected to the other members where they are
regularly “speaking the truth to one another in love.”
In men’s ministry we are finding this understanding of the
discipleship process to be enormously freeing. Instead of
trying to find enough “disciplers” for all the men, more and
more churches are challenging their men to forge bonds of
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brotherhood for encouragement and strength with a Christian
friend or two and giving them the tools to help them. The
result is that the men are “discipling each other.” What is
ironic is that right now in the PCA hundreds of older Christian
men who would never respond to a request to be a “discipler”
are connecting with younger men in these “Forging Bonds of
Brotherhood”groups, where real discipleship is happening.
(To find out about these tools look for Forging Bonds of
Brotherhood at the PCA bookstore or email me at gyagel@
forgingbonds.org.)
Where do I find more disciplers for my men? Could it be
that they are right under our noses in our congregations and
that our goal must be getting all our men regularly connecting
below the surface with some other brothers? Could it be that
the normative discipleship process is not Bill discipling Fred,
but Christ, himself, continuing to disciple his people—through
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The Doctrine of the
Christian Life, John Frame,
P&R Publishing, 2008, 1069 pages, $ 33.58
(#8990)
Frame’s
treatment of the
law of God, particularly the ten
laws, will be welcomed by the serious Christian who
wants to obey His
Lord and King
If there is one book that you should possess,
read, study, use as background resource for preaching and teaching on the Christian life, this is the
book. This is the third volume in a series of four
by John Frame. For years I have included the writings of John Frame on my must read list. He thinks
from a wholistic world and life view regarding the
Kingdom of God.
As the title suggests, this book deals with Christian ethics. And, who better than Frame to write
about that topic. He points out, as he writes about
Christian ethics, the threefold perspectives regarding ethics and Christian living.
First there is the normative perspective, followed
by the cultural or situational perspective and
then followed up by what he calls the existential
perspective, referring to our daily living the
Christian life.
We are aware that Christianity, particularly reformed and evangelical Christianity, is struggling
with the very topics included in this book, things
like: the kingdom of God, law and grace or law
and the gospel, justification and sanctification, the
sufficiency and authority of Scripture, culture, and
the role of the church within the kingdom. While
sharing with Frame a one kingdom perspective
and seeing God as sovereign over all of life and
realizing that all truth is God’s truth, I find this book
full of substantive content in dealing with these
issues. Frame does not hesitate to set forth his
understanding and convictions in a way that does
not pull any punches, yet he does so in a fair and
balanced manner. Even with those with whom he
disagrees, he speaks fairly and with a Christian spirit.
Frame’s treatment of the law of God, particularly the ten laws, will be welcomed by the serious
Christian who wants to obey His Lord and King.
He explains how we relate to the law of God i.e.
to show us our sins, then to lead us to Christ, and
after we are in Christ, how the law becomes God’s
standard for our living the Christian life, not to win
God’s favor unto salvation and acceptance, but as
the way he wants us to live in order to obey, serve,
and please him. I think of one example: chapter
32: “The Fifth Commandment: Family, Church, and
State,” followed by chapter 33 on the fifth law, entitled “Man and Woman.”
I particularly appreciate his section “Christ and
Culture.” As Christians we do not live in a vacuum
which requires that we have to be able to understand our environment in order to apply our theology to daily Christian living. What is culture? How
do Christians relate to culture? What about the
church and culture? These are some of the topics
that make this book a treasure and commentary
on the Christian life. The last section of the book
reveals his overarching desire, “Personal Spiritual
Maturity.”
Though Frame is a philosopher and theologian
par excellence, he writes with the heart of a pastor
concerned for his people to live the Christian life,
according to God’s standard. His triperspectival
view of the Christian life, (normative, situational,
and existential), blends together all three areas
into one wholistic view of living the Christian life:
loving God, loving one another, and walking in
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Frame will challenge you to think biblically and
theologically from a “Calvinistically Reformed”
context. Consistent with Equip to Disicple’s philosophy, Frame helps us to underscore the importance of the church’s role in making kingdom disciples thus enabling them to live in the broader
kingdom without attempting to transform things
like our workplace into a church, yet at the same
time having a clear Christian impact on the culture around us. Once again the old saying comes
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Salvation Belongs To
The Lord, John M. Frame, P&R
Publishing, 2006, 282 pages, $18.24
(#9287)
Here is a book that you must read, preach,
and teach. We have reviewed this in a previous
issue of Equip to Disciple, but due to its present
importance, we are reprinting it with slight editing
because it is a good companion to the Doctrine of
the Christian Life book also reviewed in this issue.
John Frame has produced another outstanding
kingdom-building book. It is an introduction to
systematic theology. Before you disregard it as just
another theology book, remember from Frame’s
other books, he views theology as life and life as
theology. Even though he says this is a book for
beginners in theology, it challenges us to think
more biblically. He writes for a college-level
audience which I believe would also include
new seminarians.
Salvation Belongs to The Lord is unique as it
challenges those engaged in full-time teaching
and preaching, it is very readable for others in the
church. He says this is not a part of his Theology
of Lordship series, but I believe it should be read
before the others in that series. In this book Frame
gives us the big picture of the Sovereign God and
his Lordship over all things, including the church
and salvation. Understanding the big picture of
God’s truth and reality will enable us to handle
the details more effectively.
This is a timely book in that studying doctrine,
at least in a systematic way, is not very popular. It
is a time when thinking with intentional precision
is needed. Systematics is a pedagogical device
to help us understand more of God and his Word
as it relates the parts to the whole and ties the
teachings of the Bible together. Frame is right
when he says, “the Bible is not a miscellaneous
collection of ideas but a coherent, consistent
system of truth in which major doctrines depend
on one another.” I believe that is why it is difficult
for people to know how to think biblically
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Lord is unique
as it challenges
those engaged in
full-time teaching
and preaching, it
is very readable
for others in the
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because they cannot always connect the dots in
the Scriptures. This book will enable the reader
and student to do that better and more practically
than many others that have been written.
Part one lays the foundation for what he writes
about in his Lordship series books. It is about
the Sovereign and Triune God, His Word, His Son,
and His Holy Spirit. Part two deals with the ordo
salutis, order of salvation, thus the title. He opens
up the doctrines of grace, including the means of
grace. He also treats the topic of the church and
kingdom clearly. For example, while the Reformers
listed three marks of the true visible church, Frame
suggests several others should be part of that list:
love among the brothers and sisters, worship, and
the Great Commission are some of his examples.
As usual, Frame gives good insights into the
government of the church. His conclusion on the
“Nature of the Church”challenges us to remember
that “the well-being of the church has more to do
with the work of the Spirit than with the form
of government.” His section on the Church and
Kingdom is also helpful. For example, he says
that God’s kingdom is synonymous with God’s
sovereignty. “The church consists of those who
have been conquered by God’s saving power, who
are now enlisted in the warfare of God’s kingdom
against the kingdom of Satan…The church is
the headquarters of the kingdom of God, the
base from which God’s dominion extends and
expands”(page 249).
He uses the term “missional church” to
underscore the church’s task in making kingdom
disciples. He highlights three elements that
make up the missional church--worship, nurture,
and witness.
I would encourage you to read, study, and
discuss this book in order to assist churches
in their making kingdom disciples curriculum.
Dr. William Edgar, professor at Westminster
Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, made a
descriptive comment on the cover of the book,
“We can be grateful for such a powerful and clear
exposition of the whole range of theology. It is at
once vigorously orthodox and sweetly pastoral.” e
True Enlightenment,
From Natural Chance to Personal
Creator, Volume 1, 2011, Carl W. Wilson,
Andragathia Books, 606 pages, $36.00
(#8530 paperback)
For those who know Carl W. Wilson, you
know him as a committed Christian, a scholar, a
practitioner, and one who has developed a keen
interest in the modern hard sciences since the
1500’s This first of a two volume set should be
on the reading list of every Christian, especially
living at a time when modern science, while
having accomplished good things, operates from
a humanistic philosophy that has taken it away
from the truth of God in many, many instances.
In a brief amount of space, knowing how to
give you a good picture of this book and its value
to Christian scholarship is not an easy task. It is
Wilson’s Magnus Opus. If you have read his other
books, whether it be on discipleship, doctrine of
man, Christian education, or cultural apologetics,
you know of his great burden and desire to glorify
God in all of his writings and ministry.
Written well, and very readable, it covers a great
amount of material that will serve as an invaluable
resource. I would say that it would be worth
having this book if you only read the introduction
and chapter 32 which summarizes much of what
he has documented throughout the book.
One sample of what you will find in the book,
“The conflict is between true disciples of God in
the church and the false religions conceived by
natural sinful men to solve man’s problems by one
world political government lead by one humanist.
Democracy that once worked under a faith in a
common biblical God in America and the West is
now subject to humanism based on pride, greed,
and lust. It seems postmodern anti-church leaders
are ready to sacrifice America and the West for a
chance at a man-made U. N. world government.”
That is a hard-hitting statement, but Wilson backs
it up throughout the book.
While modern science has attempted to leave
God out of the picture, as Christians we know
One sample of
what you will
find in the book,
“The conflict
is between
true disciples
of God in the
church and the
false religions
conceived by
natural sinful
men to solve
man’s problems
by one world
political
government
lead by one
humanist.”
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it was our faith and belief in God that actually
gave rise to modern science; yet over the years
man has followed the usual pattern of taking the
things of God and attributing them to sinful man.
For example: we know the claim that modern
science only deals with facts and observations,
not theology and philosophy. We also know as
Wilson makes clear, the fallacy of making that
into a total truth without admitting that modern
science operates on a faith based philosophy. It
was that very tension that sparked Michael Polanyi
to move from science to philosophy.
Wilson has taken the time in this book to help
us move beyond modern science to consider the
history of science and the changes in science’s
philosophy. He points out with references how
even those associated with modern science did
not have a true sense or grasp of the history of
science, consequently leading them further away
from a God foundation for all truth.
Wilson further writes, “A primary purpose of
this two-volume history of science is to inform
Christians, since the perversions were developed
and maintained as a result of the natural sin bias
of men who think they can be ‘wise as God.’ This
book seeks to develop through history the work of
the enemy in leading men astray, even well known
men in the field of science. He makes clear that
the book is not “anti-science,” but rather it is an
attempt to highlight throughout the pages and
unbiased science that honors the Creator God as
the source of all that is truly scientific. He contends
that the churches today have weakened because
they have not stood for and clearly proclaimed
Christ as the the Creator and Re-Creator which
tends to cause a blindness to the truth. Wilson,
while painting a discouraging picture for America
and the West, holds out hope that if the churches
and other institutions of learning will return to
the truth of Christ as Creator and Re-Creator and
seek to carry out the great commission, we could
expect a revival of biblical truth throughout.
I encourage you to invest in this book and make
it your aim to read it, mark it, and use it with your
children, in the discipleship in the churches, and
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Giving Up Gimmicks:
Reclaiming Youth Ministry
From An Entertainment Culture,
Brian Cosby, P&R Publishing,
192 pages, $9.48 (#11375)
It seems like there is a never ending stream of
youth ministry books being published. You can
find books on topics ranging from how to plan
good youth retreats to how to avoid having your
youth program sued. What you could not find in
youth ministry books, until recently, were serious
attempts to put youth ministry issues and models
into a theological framework. It may be in reaction
to several years of negative research concerning
the effectiveness of youth ministry that have caused
this new wave of youth ministry books to find their
way onto shelves in Christian bookstores. Whatever
the reason, I am glad to see this movement from a
reliance on proof texts to validate youth ministry
to a desire to develop a theology of youth ministry
based on the whole counsel of God taking place.
It is within this new spate of books that Brian
Cosby’s Giving Up Gimmicks: Reclaiming Youth
Ministry From An Entertainment Culture finds
itself positioned. Many a youth ministry book has
languished in the publishing wasteland because it
lacks the content to separate itself from the myriad
of books on the same topic. Thankfully, Giving Up
Gimmicks does not suffer from that issue. In fact,
I believe that it is the depth of the content of this
book that separates it above the fray.
Perhaps this quote taken from Appendix A sums
up best what Cosby has been able to achieve
with the writing of Giving Up Gimmicks,“The aim
of this book has been to offer a plea for youth
pastors, youth leaders, and parents to reclaim or
(possibly) to discover a model of youth ministry
focused on the Word of God, prayer, sacraments,
service and grace-centered community.” Building
on what he has coined a “Means of Grace” ministry
model, Cosby develops not only a theologically
reformed framework for youth ministry but he
connects the reader to church history as he builds
his case. Interspersed throughout the book
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“The aim of
this book has
been to offer
a plea for
youth pastors,
youth leaders,
and parents
to reclaim or
(possibly) to
discover a
model of youth
ministry focused
on the Word
of God, prayer,
sacraments,
service and
grace-centered
community.”
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are real life youth ministry examples and practical
applications for the youth program in your church.
If you come to this book, as I did, with an
understanding that the Means of Grace are the
Word,the sacraments,and prayer then you will most
likely be especially interested in Cosby’s thoughts
on why service and community should also be
considered Means of Grace. Whether or not you
end up agreeing with him on those points, Cosby’s
treatment of service and community as Means
of Grace is well-handled and thought-provoking,
especially in the context of youth ministry.
My final analysis of Giving Up Gimmicks is that
this book should be read by anyone connected
with youth ministry in the local church. I found
great value (even in the places that I disagreed)
in Brian Cosby’s insights throughout the book.
Because he is asking the right questions, using
God’s Word as the starting point for the answers
and has put into practice his theories in the
cauldron of local church youth ministry, I believe
Giving Up Gimmicks: Reclaiming Youth Ministry
From An Entertainment Culture can help most local
churches who believe that there is something more
to youth ministry than pizza parties and games.
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As Good As It Gets,
Stephen M. Clark, Wipf & Stock,
315 pages, $31.68 (#11351)
Honestly, I had never delved into the Song
of Songs prior to reading Stephen Clark’s book
As Good as It Gets. Now I stand amazed at the
depth and richness of how God reveals himself
in the “lyrics” of this song. References to the book
have always been more on the subject of love,
which is certainly there, but the author makes
the words come alive as he directs our attention
to what love means in our relationships with
each other, in friendships, in community, and
in the broad scope of our lives as we relate to
God and man. This was my first time reading a
commentary processing the thoughts behind the
words in the Song of Songs, and it proved to be
a very enlightening experience. Clark presents
his commentary in the form of daily devotions,
breaking the song into fifty days of guiding us
through human emotions we face in life and
relationships.
The author speaks of the beauty and passion
found in the pages while seeking to discover the
meaning it has for all of life: identity, community,
transformation, dignity, just to name a few. The
reader is taken on a journey through, as Clark
says,“…a garden steeped in passion, a place filled
with this tantalizing thing called love—always
nearly in grasp, forever slipping through our
fingers, but never left forgotten once it is found.”
This book helps us be at home in relationships
and takes us to the very core of God’s love. We
are given what the author feels is the key to the
book which is affirmation. He explains, “It may
take time for this to revolutionize the way that
we relate to others, but until it does, we will find
ourselves alone, embattled, and unready to love
and be loved.“ He goes on to say, “…in love we
are transformed, and in loving we become lifetransforming.”
As Good as It Gets is a commentary but
uniquely done, capturing the essence of the
meaning behind the words while drawing
out the far-reaching implications of what God
intends to teach us.
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The reader
is taken on
a journey
through, as
Clark says, “…a
garden steeped
in passion, a
place filled with
this tantalizing
thing called
love—always
nearly in grasp,
forever slipping
through our
fingers, but
never left
forgotten once
it is found.”
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