A fellow Navigator staff member shared this diagram the other day, reminding us all what we’re about.

Moving around the circle clockwise from the 12:00 position, we are

• In the world, evangelizing with a goal of producing a convert – someone who begins to follow Jesus.
• We establish the convert in the basics as shown in the wheel illustration (Christ the center, obedience, the Word, prayer, fellowship, and witnessing) so that the convert is a disciple. I wrote about one way to define a disciple back in January 2020.
• We then equip the disciples so that they become laborers who can be sent into the world to repeat the process.

You don’t have to be Navigator staff to be involved in this process! The mission is for everyone.

But when He saw the multitudes, He was moved with compassion for them, because they were weary and scattered, like sheep having no shepherd. Then He said to His disciples, “The harvest truly is plentiful, but the laborers are few. Therefore pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest.” (Matthew 9.36 – 38, NKJV)

And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen. (Matthew 28.18 – 20, NKJV)