1. Say YES to Discipleship!
Programs don't disciple people, people disciple people.
2. Say YES to Relationship!
What if we made sure our structures disciple people? We need to create places for people to encourage relational discipleship.
3. Say YES to making People Matter!
Disciples are made...when they know that they matter to somebody, when they know that they have a place to belong.
4. Say YES to Gratitude!
You need a Romans 16 list...the people that invested in you, walked beside you along the way. Who's list is your name going to show up on? We have the ability to control who's list we're on.
5. Say YES to Affirmation!
We need to name people's potential! Drawing out of them the person that Jesus created them to be. Our words matter so make them big! Call them up to a higher level. You have to be a little crazy to be a disciple maker...You have to see things in people that no one else sees.
6. Say YES to the Mess!
Say YES to the inevitable mess that they will either create or find themselves in. Mess transforms people's lives. We say YES to mess beginning with diapers and drool; it doesn't stay that clean! You're dealing with the bad choices that they make. If we want to say YES to the next generation, we have to say YES to the mess. We've got to speak life into the messy places. We need to remind people that their mess is not final fate...it may be the incubator for miracles in their life.
6. Say YES to the Mess!
Say YES to the inevitable mess that they will either create or find themselves in. Mess transforms people's lives. We say YES to mess beginning with diapers and drool; it doesn't stay that clean! You're dealing with the bad choices that they make. If we want to say YES to the next generation, we have to say YES to the mess. We've got to speak life into the messy places. We need to remind people that their mess is not final fate...it may be the incubator for miracles in their life.
7. Say YES to Inconvenience!
YES to hard conversations and shifting our priorities. Tell them a story that is larger than their own. We need to find ways to make people experience grace that is unmistakable. It's one thing to give people a list of statements and say believe it or give them a list of rules and say follow it...we're not going to win the next generation by making statements AT them.
Who are we leaving in our wake?
Who's going to be on their Romans 16 list?
We can make sure that those we've been entrusted with experience grace in the fullness of truth and the fullness of truth in the experience of grace. We've got to tell the story over and over again!
We cannot let Jesus' LAST command become our LEAST concern! We must invite them into a story that's bigger than our own.
We must reach the next generation! We must say YES!
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YES to hard conversations and shifting our priorities. Tell them a story that is larger than their own. We need to find ways to make people experience grace that is unmistakable. It's one thing to give people a list of statements and say believe it or give them a list of rules and say follow it...we're not going to win the next generation by making statements AT them.
It's not RULES to live by but a CALLING to live for!
Who are we leaving in our wake?
Who's going to be on their Romans 16 list?
We can make sure that those we've been entrusted with experience grace in the fullness of truth and the fullness of truth in the experience of grace. We've got to tell the story over and over again!
We cannot let Jesus' LAST command become our LEAST concern! We must invite them into a story that's bigger than our own.
We must reach the next generation! We must say YES!
@bevhylton (Twitter)
Russell Beverly Hylton (Facebook)www.russellhylton.com@bfwcindy (Twitter & Instagram)
Bfwc Indianapolis (Facebook)www.bfwc.net
