Recipe for Disaster
This article at Extreme Theology presents "How to Make a Disciple Casserole" featuring two different "recipes":
The New and Improved Seeker-Sensitive Recipe for Making Disciples
- Heaping Portions of Culturally Appealing Entertainment
- Generous Scoops of Songs That Have Little or No Doctrinal Content
- Buckets of Sermons That Teach Practical Self-Help Lessons and Pop-Psych Mixed With a Sprinkling of Out-of-Context Bible Verses
- The Yeast From a Small Group Study Lead by Un-Trained Lay-People Who Pool Their Biblical Ignorance by Asking the Question, “What Does This Verse Mean to You?”
The Biblical Recipe for Making Disciples - Acts 2:42
- A Tenacious Devotion to the Teaching of the Apostles (God’s Word Proclaimed in Song and Sermon) Under A Trained Pastor - 2 Tim 4:1-2, 2 Tim 2:2
- Fellowship
- Breaking of Bread (Lord's Supper)
- Prayers
posted by Tres Adames | 10:40 PM
2 Comments:
wow, that's a good one Tres. Hey, I went out evangelizing, "way of the Master" style for the first time two weeks ago. It was a powerful experience to share the gospel with someone on the street and I plan on doing it again soon. I always kind of wanted to go with you guys at Asbury but I found a fellow med-student who does it so I went with a group he goes with. I went with a guy who has done it a lot and I learned by watching him. I talked to a Mormon lady for a while and got to the point of sharing the gospel. It was very cool.
Hey Matt,
That's awesome that you have had the opportunity to go out and witness. It sure is a life-changing experience. "The Way of the Master" style, or simply using the law in evangelism, is something that we as the church have really lost. The law has such a supernatural effect of breaking hard hearts and preparing the way for the gospel that it is amazing. I've seen people's attitude change and hearts humbled before my very eyes. Using the law to bring out the knowledge of sin is something that Wesley believed in and something that I long to see Wesleyans (and all Christians, for that matter) return to.
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