Multiplying Disciple-Makers — Chair 4

As a person moves along the disciple-making pathway from seeker to believer to worker, how do they know when they have arrived at the fourth Chair as a disciple-maker?

In Luke 6:40, we see Jesus say this to His disciples.

“Students are not greater than their teacher. But the student who is fully trained will become like the teacher.”

Student is another word for disciple. “The disciples who is fully trained will become like the person who discipled them.”

If a disciple is going to be like their teacher, they have to know what the teacher knows so they can say what the teacher says and do what the teacher does.

If a disciple is going to be like their teacher, the character and priorities of the teacher must be reflected in the way the disciple lives.

If a disciple is going to be like their teacher, and their teacher discipled them, then the only way they can truly be like their teacher is to disciple someone else.

Built right into the DNA of being a disciple is the priority of making disciples!

So again, as a person moves along the disciple-making pathway from seeker to believer to worker, how do they know when they have arrived at the fourth Chair as a disciple-maker?

The only way you can know if you are a disciple-maker is to look around you and see if you have actually made any disciples. Have you helped someone move from seeker to believer to worker, and now they are helping someone else move from seeker to believer and eventually worker? If so, then you have a disciple who is doing what you have done with them. You have a disciple who is making disciples. If you have a disciple who is beginning to make disciples, then, and only then, do you know that you are in the fourth Chair as a disciple-maker.

This has been Jesus’ plan from the beginning. He chooses to use ordinary, unschooled men and women just like you and me to carry out His plan to take the gospel from Jerusalem, to Judea and Samaria, to the ends of the earth. He chooses to use ordinary, unschooled men, women, children and students to reach this world one block at a time… one school at a time… one workplace at a time… one city at a time… one state at a time… one nation at a time.

Ordinary me. Ordinary you. We have always been God’s plan!

“So, we are Christ’s ambassadors; God is making his appeal through us. We speak for Christ when we plead, “Come back to God!”” 2 Corinthians 5:20