I don’t even know how many months ASD has been going but I could not be more proud of the folks that finished the class. I have seen tremendous spiritual growth in every person in the group. I am really excited about what God is going to do with each and every one of them.
The Ladies sporting their ASD shirts
Lifting up their pastor
Some of The Fellas
If you want to grow in your relationship with God it is good to have a mentor. But I don’t think that a personal mentor is absolutely necessary. Why? Jesus promised that we would be mentored by the Holy Ghost.
Earthly mentors do the fine tuning. If you do not have a submissive spirit and an ear to hear what the mentor is teaching you are wasting both of you time.
On that note, I regularly tell people that as Christians, we have a 4-point foundation we need to maintain to enable the Holy Ghost to mentor us. If we do not have these things working in our lives we are delaying the process.
I know there are lots of scripts and methods to win the lost but there is nothing more effective then sharing your testimony with someone you have a relationship with. This requires three things:
The best way to get good at giving your testimony is to hear others give their testimonies and to give your testimony as often as possible. I tell the folks at The Mission that evangelism is the best way to work out your ministry gifting. Don’t tell me you have a call of God on your life if you don’t want to win the people He died for.
I am Second is a site I recently found that has some really remarkable testimonies. Not because of how dramatic they are, but because they are so effectively communicated. If I still had my discipleship class I would assign this site as homework.
