WWJD?

Do you remember that popular Evangelical catch phrase from the 90’s? I do. I never liked it – then, because I was busy acting like a heathen, and now, because anyone who has even read just a few pages of the gospels knows that the disciples blew it every time they tried to predict WJWD.

Well, I guess there’s one thing that we can be Scripturally certain that Jesus would do if he were still walking the earth today. He would be making disciples.

GO… Make Disciples… That is what Jesus said, that is what Jesus did, that is what Jesus passed on, and that is most certainly what Jesus would ‘be for’ if he were still physically present with us. We know for a fact that he is still for that because he lives, and so does his command to his disciples to GO and Make Disciples.

Jesus didn’t merely suggest that his followers preach repentance, evangelize the lost, or teach clever lessons… His earthy ministry surely wasn’t limited to just making pleasant choices in a social context either. He expected much more. He expected us to pour our very lives into a new generation of disciples just as he poured his very life into the Twelve.

The Church in America today is practically clueless when it comes to Scriptural, Jesus-commanded discipleship. I admit that I certainly don’t know it all, but it is because generations before me quit making disciples the way Jesus did it. People love to say what wrong with this country… there’s your problem right there. We need to re-discover true, biblical, Jesus-commanded, apostle-obeyed, early church-experienced discipleship.