{"id":2084,"date":"2020-05-07T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=2084"},"modified":"2020-05-05T21:33:41","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T03:33:41","slug":"first-steps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=2084","title":{"rendered":"First Steps"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I ended yesterday<\/a> with my commentary on 2 Timothy 2.2:\u00a0\u201cPass on what you heard from me\u2026to reliable leaders who are competent to teach others.\u201d<\/em> (MSG)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2 Timothy 2.2: it\u2019s so easy, anyone can do it, even laypeople! It\u2019s so important everyone must do it, even pastors!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are three simple “first steps” applicable to pastors or lay people:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(1) Teach people to have daily time with God<\/a> so that they are connecting with and hearing directly from God. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(2) Pray for God to give you one person to invest in. If you can\u2019t give one person, one hour, once\/week, you need to rethink what else you\u2019re doing. This is a critical step for a pastor since the pastor needs to model for the laypeople what to do. My friend and former pastor Dr. Jim Singleton, now a professor at Gordon-Conwell Seminary in Boston, writes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can have a realistic expectation that a pastor could do a micro-expression of discipleship every year. I did that for 29 years. Today, we have a discipleship initiative at the seminary, and I am discipling four pastors-to-be now – plus two men in the church. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jim has developed his own content, but there are a lot of wonderful tools out there<\/a>, as I’ve written about before. This page<\/a> lists a lot of them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(3) Begin to implement the Imagine Church<\/a> message of helping everyone make a contribution where they are. Teaching everyone that they are on mission even if they\u2019re not fully-developed \u201cdisciple-makers.\u201d This goes to the 6Ms, borrowed from Mark Greene\u2019s book Fruitfulness on the Frontline<\/a>, which I blogged about beginning February 4, 2019<\/a>.) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those steps are doable by anyone starting today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He is the one we proclaim, admonishing and teaching everyone with all wisdom, so that we may present everyone fully mature in Christ. To this end I strenuously contend with all the energy Christ so powerfully works in\u00a0me. (Colossians 1.28, 29, NIV)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I ended yesterday with my commentary on 2 Timothy 2.2:\u00a0\u201cPass on what you heard from me\u2026to reliable leaders who are competent to teach others.\u201d (MSG) 2 Timothy 2.2: it\u2019s so easy, anyone can do it, even laypeople! It\u2019s so important everyone must do it, even pastors! Here are three simple “first steps” applicable to pastors … Continue reading First Steps<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8X9bo-xC","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2084"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2087,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2084\/revisions\/2087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}