{"id":67,"date":"2016-07-27T16:03:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-27T16:03:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-08-24T18:52:41","modified_gmt":"2016-08-24T18:52:41","slug":"a-lesson-on-discipleship-from-my-friend-tim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themajestysmen.com\/gospelpost\/a-lesson-on-discipleship-from-my-friend-tim\/","title":{"rendered":"A Lesson On Discipleship From My Friend Tim"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><\/div>\n<p>In 2008 I read the book <i>Family Driven Faith <\/i>by Voddie Baucham. As a 25 year old single church planter, I bought into the Family Integrated Model of ministry hook-line and sinker. Like every ministry model or theological convert I became obnoxious. All youth and children&#8217;s ministry is wrong and un-biblical and blah blah blah. To be fair, I still believe in a form of the Family Integrated Model. Our church is committed to a variation of that model. That said, my &#8220;Cage Stage&#8221; days are over.<br \/>\nIn 2010 I got hired as a Pastoral Intern\/Campus Pastor of a Multi-Site church. At that time I was still very much anti youth ministry. Enter Tim. He was the church Youth Pastor. He was patient with me. I grilled Tim on multiple occasions: &#8220;Give me statistics. What is the percentage of your former students that are still loving Jesus and connected to the local church? Youth ministry is simply not working.&#8221; Looking back I am astonished that Tim was as patient with me as he was. What was his response to my questions? He said: &#8220;I can&#8217;t give you statistics. I can give you names.&#8221; That was my light bulb moment! Names are always better than statistics. My friend Tim and his wife Maria live by 2 Tim. 2:2 <b>&#8220;and what you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses entrust to faithful men\u00a0who will be able to teach others also.&#8221; <\/b>Tim kept giving me names of students that he personally discipled. Those students he mentioned, he assured me, were loving Jesus and making disciples.<br \/>\nGod used Tim to help me be more faithful to the Bible. God used him to set me on a path of re-learning what pastoral ministry and life as a Christian is all about. The question that started marking my life was &#8220;Who are you discipling and who is discipling you?&#8221; Thankfully I now have an answer to those questions. Do you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2008 I read the book Family Driven Faith by Voddie Baucham. As a 25 year old single church planter, I bought into the Family Integrated Model of ministry hook-line and sinker. Like every ministry model or theological convert I became obnoxious. All youth and children&#8217;s ministry is wrong and un-biblical and blah blah blah. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":108,"featured_media":481,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-67","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themajestysmen.com\/gospelpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themajestysmen.com\/gospelpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themajestysmen.com\/gospelpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themajestysmen.com\/gospelpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/108"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themajestysmen.com\/gospelpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/themajestysmen.com\/gospelpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themajestysmen.com\/gospelpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themajestysmen.com\/gospelpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themajestysmen.com\/gospelpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themajestysmen.com\/gospelpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}