Sometimes Christianity feels too cliche and you just don't want to bother talking about any of it. All the phrases you would hear in the best selling church books to the same words you would hear in almost every prayer. All the words feel so dead. All the words spoken seem to carry no weight at all. As I pray, there are times when I feel like I should just shut up and stop talking. The words that come to my mind often feel like they are only repetitions of the past, regurgitations of what I have already heard, or they are just words that are just 'safe' and familiar to say. But thank you God, for sending your spirit to intercede for us through wordless groans. Sometimes I feel like prayer should just be an acknowledgement, a submission to the intercession of the Spirit as we take time to just let Him pray for the things that we ought to pray for. Not a passive submission but an active one. A submission that listens so intently in the silence...
It's not JUST about being a good person to be able to disciple others. Its not about teaching them how to be a good person. Or even to teach them how to serve or what they should learn. It's a matter of having a deep relationship with God and to invite others into having a deeper relationship with God also. It's about listening to their struggles and sins; to help them continue on the narrow path that God has set out for them. We need to give people hope from a human perspective and let them know that God is still with them and loves them. I know good people all around me who are Christians who need to be discipled. From the outside they look like the best Christians you can find. Then when you talk to them, they tell you that they are struggling, they need help, they need to be discipled. Stop thinking you need to be perfect to disciple people. And stop discipling people like you are a perfect person. You don't need to...