What's Next?

On this dreary Sunday morning, I am at church. I have been reading about discipleship and listening to other church podcasts about how churches expose new members to what next steps for these new members.

Some churches have very extensive flow charts that set forth detailed steps of discipleship. They are impressive, but not terribly understandable to me. Some have nothing that is articulated. I am somewhere in between those two extremes at this point.

Though, maybe neither extreme is ideal. What's the point of a plan that no one can understand? Likewise, when you can't articulate your "next steps" plan, you really don't have one, at least not one that is useful.

Here was the most interesting plan I heard so far: your job as a Christian is to love one another (John 13; Matthew 22) and therefore, the natural consequence of loving everyone is that you come for the lost (Luke 15) to the ends of the earth (Acts 1). That means finding those away from God, introducing them to his son, and never stopping until you get everybody (which won't happen before you die).

Seems too simple. Maybe that's the genius of it.

And so my research continues.