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I\u2019m at Spring Canyon near Buena Vista, Colorado, where I had the privilege of speaking last year. This year\u2019s speaker is a 31-year Army chaplain, now retired, and the topic is \u201cDisciplines for the Warrior.\u201d He and I are on the same page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He opened with a story from a particular denomination that I won\u2019t name (he did!) that he used to be part of. A denomination whose emphasis was get \u2018em saved, and get \u2018em baptized. I was in such a church not long ago, where after a baptism, the pastor said, \u201cThat\u2019s what we\u2019re here for. To see people saved and baptized!\u201d And I thought, \u201cSo why am I here?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyway, the speaker\u2019s story went like this:\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was on staff of a church which had weekly attendance of 2,000. In the two years I was there, we baptized 800 people\/year, 1,600 people in two years. And what was our weekly attendance after two years? 2,000. When 2,000 + 1,600 = 2,000, something is wrong.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said, \u201cOur mission is to make disciples, and disciples grow through the disciplines.\u201d I couldn\u2019t agree more.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jesus came to them and said, \u201cAll authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore, go and make disciples…\u201d (Matthew 28.18, 19)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Discipline yourself for the purpose of godliness. (1 Timothy 4.7, NASB)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m at Spring Canyon near Buena Vista, Colorado, where I had the privilege of speaking last year. This year\u2019s speaker is a 31-year Army chaplain, now retired, and the topic is \u201cDisciplines for the Warrior.\u201d He and I are on the same page. He opened with a story from a particular denomination that I won\u2019t … Continue reading 2000+1600=??<\/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-988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s8X9bo-20001600","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988","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=988"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":989,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988\/revisions\/989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}