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GBC Saturday Seminar Session Five 2010-10-09
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Session Five
THEGOSPELTOOLS
FOR DISCIPLESHIP
Session Five Objectives
• To argue (again) that this seminar is not enough to make effective disciplers
• To liberate disciplers from panic
• To provide a pocketful of tools for disciplers
ONE MORE WHACKColossians 1:28 “in all wisdom”
WISDOM
wisdom: “skill for living”;“the capacity to understand and function accordingly”
Get it. Proverbs 4:7
Fear the LORD. Proverbs 9:10
Listen. Proverbs 5:7, 13; 7:24; 8:32; 13:1; 19:20; 23:22
Learn Scripture. 2 Timothy 3:15-17; Proverbs 1:4-5
Ask for it. James 1:5
Fail. Epically.
The old seminary professors used to speak about a necessary trait for pastoral ministry called gravitas.
It refers to a soul that has developed enough spiritual mass to be attractive, like gravity. It makes the soul appear old, but gravitas has nothing to do with age. It has everything to do with wounds that
have healed well, failures that have been redeemed, sins that have been forgiven, and thorns that have
settled into the flesh. These severe experiences with life expand the soul until it appears larger than the
body that contains it.
Craig Barnes, The Pastor as Minor Poet, 49
FORKS AND MEATBALLSIn defense of a multi-prong approach
1. CLARITY
There is already enough ignorance,deceit, speculation, and ambiguity.
Colossians 1:5-7
2 Corinthians 4:2
Colossians 4:2-4
2. COMMON SENSE
We cannot persuade men to love Godby serving their idols (or their flesh).
Colossians 4:5-6
3. COMPASSION
Having compassion for the lost or immaturedoes not require our foolishness.
Gentle love
4. QUESTIONS
Questions keep us from being fools.
Teaching through not talking
Assumptions do not nurture relationship.
Questions (and listening) promote it.
4. QUESTIONS
How is your Bible reading? What are you learning?
What is your testimony?
How is your relationship with your spouse? Parents?
What did you think about (last Sunday’s) sermon?
How is your soul?
5. SUPPLICATION
Somewhere along the waywe’ve stopped praying for open doors
and started picking at the locks.
Colossians 4:2-4