Joshua Boyd
How many of you have experienced this scenario yourself or observed it in someone else: you start out learning something new and after a short period begin to be comfortable with the knowledge. However, it goes one step too far in beginning to think you know everything about the subject or process. You don’t. You’ve scratched the surface of a wealth of knowledge.
Those who know the most about a subject know that they don’t know everything about it. We are always learning.
Think about young Christians, not young in age but young in Christian walk. They get excited about the good news, the new life in Christ and eternal hope. They volunteer at church and want to help others. Some, however, start to think they have all that they need from the Word, from church. They begin to disconnect, not out of anger or unbelief, but forgetting their need to grow. The learning never stops.
Do we ever graduate? Do we ever stop needing to learn? Short answer, no. Like little children, we will always have a dependency on our heavenly Father. We will always be learning. We have something to hold on to and something to gain, every day of our lives.
As we have been learning how to grow our church family, we discussed discipleship last time. Not only are we called to be disciples, we are commanded to disciple others. We continue today by understanding what the Scriptures tell us how to be a disciple.
A believer is not a disciple. Many are believers without ever being disciples. Non-disciples cannot make disciples as we are told to do.
Hebrews 5:14
14 Solid food is for those who are mature, who through training have the skill to recognize the difference between right and wrong.
