4 Chair Discipling

Today I was blessed to have been invited to the Christian Surfers "4 Chair Discipling". Dean Plumlee, director of Christian Surfers, spoke to us about how to be disciples and live, love, speak, and act in the way Jesus did. He also spoke to us about how to make more disciples who will then follow Christ in the same way and so that they will keep making more and more generations of disciples. The first chair of the "Four Chair Discipling" talked about when you are lost and how Jesus wants you to "come and see" who He is. The second chair is when you begin to follow the Lord, you are a believer. It's your foundation. You cannot completely succeed the third and fourth chair if you are not a fully devoted believer and if you do not understand what a believer is. Jesus wants to teach you to grow to be more and more like Him so that you can speak and love and teach others to do the exact same. Chair three is being a "fisher for men". You are now a worker. This is where you will learn and begin to become a disciple maker. Where you will "walk as Jesus walked" and learn to teach others to do the same. You will begin "fishing for men".  Last but not least, you are now a disciple maker. You will now "go and bear fruit". Jesus strengthens you so that you can go and seek the lost as Jesus did. You will teach them to love our Father and they will go through the same process so they can be strengthened by God and live in Him and with Him. I learned a lot today and I really hope and pray that Jesus will strengthen me to help people to know Him and love Him as He already loves them and I pray that He will strengthen us all throughout our journey and our lives to speak His good word and that we will all find peace, love and joy in Him. Thank you Dean Plumlee for being one of the disciples in my life to help me on my journey :)  "A student is not above his teacher, but everyone who is fully trained will be like his teacher." Luke 6:40