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Jesus said that the greatest commandment is, "To love the Lord our God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength." Spiritual Teamwork's primary goal is build strong disciples of Christ who are willing to lay down their lives for the gospel.
We will do this by:
- Putting low cost or no cost resources into the hands of believers, church leaders, pastors, or whoever wants to do discipleship minister in or out of churches.
- Building a web-community so believers can encourage each other and where individuals can come along side one another and build each other up as iron sharpens iron.
- Developing communities in local congregations where two or three can come together and be mentored by people that are on fire for God.
- Speaking and teaching on the subject of Christian Discipleship and Spiritual Growth to whoever will listen.
The Mandate
The Church has missed the second part of the great commission. We have been so busy trying to make converts we have failed to make disciples. It is this call to discipleship that drives this ministry. Jesus told the Apostles and thereby us as well to, "Make disciples of all nations" then to, "teach them to obey all he taught." While millions have walked down aisles or prayed prayers of forgiveness over the last twenty years, we have failed to make disciples of any kind.
The word disciple means "Student of"." We want to help people become students of Christ. To help them learn from him just as the disciples did and many believers through the ages. By strengthening the individual believer the church as a whole will be strengthened. By strengthening of the church through the individual believers we will see the Christian church again become a beacon to the world.
The Guy
My passion is for the gospel of Christ and the life that that gospel brings to all who believe. I want to see God's people living for him in a way we have not seen recently in the American church. The church has become more like a social club than the body of Christ conforming to the mainstream take on Christianity. I am not some right-wing nut job. I am just a guy who has put my hope in Christ, and has seen what living a life focusing on him can be.
I believe the bible is the word of God given to man to teach, inspire and rebuke him. I believe it is the revelation of the only savior of the human race, Jesus Christ. And oddly enough%u2026 I believe the bible was inerrant in its original text.
We must find our voice as Christians and that begins with a deeper reading daily in the bible, not on FOX News. As Christians the bible is where we start. The Bible is the rudder for our daily practices. I am passionate about helping people learn to read and appreciate God's Holy, inspired and inerrant word.
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What Are Christian Spiritual Disciplines
- Prayer
- Worship
- Fasting
- Scripture Study
- Service
- Stewardship
Why Do We Believe We Need The Disciplines Today?
We believe the trend in churches today is away from discipleship and focused more on getting new believers. While bringing someone to Christ is part of our great commission from Christ, it is only one part. The second part of that commission is to make disciples. We believe that in making disciples the spiritual disciplines are the closest thing we can find modeled by Christ in his life.
In his book The Spirit of the Disciplines: Understanding How God Changes Lives Dallas Willard uses the analogy of an athlete that kids would model themselves after when they played ball. That athlete did not become a great athlete by sitting on the sideline he or she became a great athlete by training him or herself daily for the game. Just as these athletes performed great under pressure it is when we are under pressure that we see how well we have trained. If we have read the scriptures a little and shown up for church we may not act like our example, Christ. On the other hand if we have trained daily, when the time comes, we will not loose our cool or act inappropriately. We will be the example some young boy or girl will want to emulate because they have seen Christ in us.
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- Center for Biblical Spirituality
- Don S. Whitney is Senior Associate Dean at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, KY
- Introduction to the Spiritual Disciplines
- One of the best article I have found Introducing the Disciplines
- Disciplines Outline
- A good outline on some of the disciplines
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