Discipleship Philosophy...What We Do

Quantum L.E.A.P. Discipleship is a unique discipleship development process facilitated by an interactive manual that takes participants through the New Testament book of Mark. The purpose of this is to guide them through and surface the issues related to establishing a relationship of "Following Christ."

Christ's discipleship invitation is simple...Follow Me and I Will Make You Become Fishers of Men. Our job is to learn "to follow." God's role is "to make us become" something different than we are. Oswald Chambers said, "We think that God is leading us to an end product. But, He is not. God is interested in establishing the process, for the process is (will produce) the end product."

Like the illusions picture to the left, we get the process upside down. Put your pointer over the picture and see what happens when the illusion is reversed. How does the picture take on a completely different image.

So, it is in our Christian lives. The typical approach today is to focus on becoming and trying to make this happen becomes more of a secular educational approach (read-learn-apply-do). This is the ACHIEVING SYSTEM...performing through my own effort to measure up to God's truth to change my actions (how I perform). (James 1:20). But, this is upside down from Christ's discipleship process away from such a performance system.

Quantum L.E.A.P. Discipleship's uniqueness is to refocus a Christian's perspective (turn it upside down) to establish what it means "to follow Christ" instead of focusing on "trying to become." This is the RECEIVING SYSTEM...responding to the Spirit's work to implant or establish God's truth in me to change my soul (who I become) (James 1:21).

The commitment to Christ's Discipleship Process is established from Mark 1:1-21and identified in the following chart:

To What Is Christ Calling A Disciple to Commit?
to the RECEIVING SYSTEM	away from the ACHIEVING SYSTEM
• To Following	• Not to Becoming
God's job is to make us become; our job is to focus on "following Him." Is your attention focused on becoming in your Christian life? God's discipleship process is designed to get your focus off of becoming and on to what it means to follow Him.
• To Follow the Spirit	• Not Follow A Man
Is your attention drawn to an image, popularity, success, or performance of a human leader? God, and listening to His Spirit, should be increasing and the messenger decreasing as one follows.
• To Trust and Repentance	• Not in Learning, Doing & Applying
A "Follow Me" relationship invokes two questions that demand we let go of control:           "Who is Me?"... focus on letting go and trusting - the foundation for following           anyone is I first must trust them. This is the basis to leading one to a deeper           commitment making the sacrifice to follow.       "How Do I Follow?"... focus on letting go and repenting - the substance of           following is found in submitting to wherever He leads, even when it means to           the crucifixion of my flesh. After initialing establishing trust, Christ then call us           to, "If you want to follow me, you must deny yourself and pick up your cross."
• To Endure in Following Him regardless of Cost	• Not just Following to find Blessings/Comfort
We won't know how committed we are until we have to pay a price for that commitment. Does it maintain or wane in times of trial or problems? Larry Crabbs (in book Soul Talk), says about American Christianity toda..."it is the energy we expend to get God to coopoerate with what we want God to do to make our life comfortable and convenient." The goal of God's discipleship process is "restore us through our circumstance" (make us become) not "relieve us from our circumstances (perform to get blessings)."

To examine further How Christ Discipled His Men and understand
How Quantum L.E.A.P. Discipleship is modeling these same methods...
go to How We Do It.

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