Making Healthy Disciples Seminars

Before leaving earth to return to His Father, Jesus gave a clear assignment to His followers. He told them to "go and make disciples of all nations" (Matthew 28:19). Ephesians 4:13 gives a good description of a healthy disciple when it encourages believers to reach "unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ." As new believers begin to grow in Christ, they mature into healthy disciples who desire to make other disciples, who will, in turn, make disciples, and so on.

How does Jesus' assignment relate to us today? His words in Acts 1:8 instructed the early church to begin "in Jerusalem" and then move out to "the ends of the earth." That means that all believers have the responsibility to be "witnesses" and a part of the disciple-making process both in their hometowns and around the world. Our Jerusalem is where God has planted us today-right in our own backyards! Our Jerusalem includes both the physical locations where we live and the local churches of which we are a part. It impacts both the individual and the entire local church family. As individual believers and as local church Christian education leaders and teachers, we must take seriously our assignment to "make disciples" of children, youth, and adults among all people groups worldwide.

As an important member of the Christian education ministry leadership team in your church, how would you respond to the following questions? How do you think your ministry peers would respond?

1. How is your church carrying out Christ's command?

2. If the desired end product is a healthy, discipled student, what does such a person look like at a given age level?

3. Are the ministry programs offered by your church intentionally designed to make healthy disciples at every age level?

4. How do you design a ministry master plan that can ensure healthy disciples are being made at every age level?

Making Healthy Disciples has been written to address the above questions and to encourage and equip local church leaders and teachers to design their local church Christian education ministries so that healthy disciples are being made at every age level.

This seminar is available to your local church by contacting office@cmawpa.org