We are looking at my friend Ray Bandi’s pattern for disciple-making through intentional relationships.

• Love
• Pray
• Model
• Teach
• Repeat

Today, we’re thinking about Repeat. Ray writes:

Disciple-Makers Love, Pray, Model, Teach, and Repeat as necessary because we know that most of the time, it is necessary to repeat if we want to make disciples. – Ray Bandi, emphasis his

Repetition is definitely the key to learning!

By this time you ought to be teachers yourselves, yet here I find you need someone to sit down with you and go over the basics on God again, starting from square one… (Hebrews 5.12, MSG)

Because the stakes are so high, even though you’re up-to-date on all this truth and practice it inside and out, I’m not going to let up for a minute in calling you to attention before it. This is the post to which I’ve been assigned—keeping you alert with frequent reminders—and I’m sticking to it as long as I live. (2 Peter 1.12, 13, MSG)

And as we close out this series (thanks again, Ray!), I’d like us to consider one more aspect of “repeat.” We want the whole process to repeat as our disciples love, pray, model, and teach their disciples!

If I have repeating the process in mind, that will affect the way I disciple someone. I do it in a way that makes them feel that they can do it, too. This is critically important. That’s one of the reasons we advocate for accessible tools – accessible to the trainee AND the trainer–the disciple-maker!

Jesus did that. He taught in such a way that when he gave them the Great Commission in Acts 1.8, by the end of chapter 1, they are making plans to actually carry it out. A friend of mine calls this “The Great Conclusion.” Yes, with God’s help, we can do this.

[Jesus said, ] “But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”… [Peter said, ] “So one of the men who have accompanied us during all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us, beginning from the baptism of John until the day when he was taken up from us—one of these men must become with us a witness to his resurrection.” (Acts 1.8, 21, 22, ESV)

So this brings us full circle to where we started. I hope you feel more empowered to do the work to which we are all called.

And the things you have heard me say in the presence of many witnesses entrust to reliable people who will also be qualified to teach others. (2 Timothy 2.2, NIV)

Remember:

2 Timothy 2.2:  It’s so easy, anyone can do it, even lay people.
It’s so important, everyone must do it, even pastors.