A father was sitting watching television, when his little boy came running over. \u201cDaddy, can you play with me?\u201d Dad enjoys playing with his son, and plans to give him plenty of time, but not just yet. \u201cSoon, son, soon\u201d says Dad. \u201cWhen the game is finished.\u201d Five minutes later the little boy returns. \u201cDaddy, can we play now?\u201d \u201cSoon, son, soon. When this game finishes.\u201d Two minutes later the little boy returns again. \u201cDaddy, is it time to play yet?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dad realises he\u2019s not going to get any peace, so he decides to set his son a task that will take some time. He notices a picture of a map of the world on the front page of the newspaper lying in front of him. He tears the picture out then rips it into small pieces. \u201cNow son, I\u2019ve got a game for you. Take the pieces of this picture of the world and put them back together again and then we\u2019ll play together.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The little boy eagerly takes the pieces away with him and sets to work. Dad\u2019s relieved he\u2019ll get to see the last half hour of the game. But, to his amazement, his little boy is back in less than five minutes. \u201cI\u2019ve finished daddy. Can we play now?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The father is stunned when he turns around to see his son holding up the picture of the world, each piece sticky taped into the right position. Dad begins wondering whether he has a child prodigy on his hands. \u201cHow did you get it done so quickly?\u201d he asks. \u201cThat would\u2019ve taken me a good 30 minutes and I\u2019m an adult.\u201d \u201cOh, it was easy daddy. On the back of the world was a picture of a person, so I put the person together and that\u2019s when the world came together.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
How do we understand the world around us? How do we do what Jesus commanded us to do in the world? Jesus is the face on the other side of the puzzle. He enables us to make sense of life and our world and to find a path through it. (Source: unknown<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n When I\u2019m working with Church leaders I often ask the question, \u201c<\/em>What is your disciple making process?\u201d<\/em> After listening for some time I find that most people answer the question in one of the following ways: <\/p>\n\n\n\n An effective discipleship process must connect the disciple to Jesus, who is Life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The photo on the other side of the discipleship \u201cmap\u201d is Jesus. When he takes His rightful place as the centre of the process, then the pieces of the discipleship puzzle come together more easily. When the disciple is led by the Life-giver, he or she will be both self-perpetuating and self-propagating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n With the right DNA, the right person giving shape and direction to the process, you will grow the real thing. When everyone and everything is gone the disciple is left with nothing but Jesus<\/p>\n\n\n\n Discipleship is not complicated, it begins in our every day encounters with people. It happens in (super) natural ways, not in arti\ufb01cial or manufactured ways.(Mark 4). Just as God breathed life into all living creatures (Genesis 2:7), He also breathes His life into the disciple. (John 21:21-23; Acts 2) Disciples, like all living entities, are to be fruitful and multiply and \ufb01ll the earth.(Genesis 1:28; Acts 1:8)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A father was sitting watching television, when his little boy came running over. \u201cDaddy, can you play with me?\u201d Dad enjoys playing with his son, and plans to give him plenty of time, but not just yet. \u201cSoon, son, soon\u201d says Dad. \u201cWhen the game is finished.\u201d Five minutes later the little boy returns. \u201cDaddy, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":434,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n