To those courageously standing in
the gap between a merciful and Holy God and athletes on their campus who’ve yet
to know Him,
We want to focus again this week on
Discipleship or our ‘Build’ component of the ‘Prayer, Win, Build, Send’ strategic path.
As Jesus’ Great Commission,
entrusted to the eleven, and in turn, to us,
states:
“Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing
them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and
teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am
with you always, to the very end of the age.” Matthew
28-19-20
In this simple command, Jesus
reveals the genius behind His plan for Global conquest. Notice that His
final commission does not state to go and “Make Converts” of all the nations;
we’re to make ‘Disciples.’ Making converts is arguably a whole
lot easier and less messy. Making disciples, helping others move from
being a newborn in Christ to a solid, mature, self-feeding and other-influencing
Christian, requires lots of prayer, patience, teaching, modeling, usually many
meals, thus, a high amount of relational capacity from that of a more mature
Christ follower.
But in the process, a Spiritual Leader is
multiplied. And where there is multiplication, the potential
for exponential impact is realized. If all you did this year is lead ten
athletes to Christ, that is awesome. However, in addition to that, if you
were to disciple, multiply into 2-3 others, who would in turn be equipped to
share the gospel and disciple others, well, you see where this is going……For you
math and analytical types, check out the graph in the article here
from the SportLinc website.
Finally, many of you are not
currently receiving weekly coaching from a staff member with Athletes in Action. If you would
like to hear more about that or if you think its time for you to take advantage
of this resource and relationship, please let us
know!
Keep getting into the mess of others
lives helping them go from immaturity to impact!
The Athletes in
Action SportLinc Team
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Sport
ONE
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