So, maybe you know someone who is serious about following Jesus. Maybe you are serious about it. What kind of training do they or you need to really do this in our culture? If you are the one wanting some help in running the race, who do you know who can help you? We all need someone in our life who cares about us enough to ask the hard questions and will show us how to run and not give up.
Some things we need to run this race include:
1. How to develop meaningful friendships with co-workers or neighbors.
2. How to talk about who Jesus is and how a person can know him.
3. How to begin a spiritual conversation with a person without turning them off.
4. Knowing what is true, never changes and what it means to be committed to it.
5. How to help a follower of Jesus grow as a follower and not just a believer.
6. How to help a follower of Jesus know how to get into the Bible and make applications to real life.
There are other things we need along the way and we definitely need a community of like hearted people who can help us in the race.
If you are helping someone now, remember that the focus should be on learning not teaching. Learning rarely happens outside of real life, so, much of your training should be in the market place. Indoor classrooms are comfortable but do not have enough real life oxygen to help us on the track. Videos, I Pods and speeches on" how to run" are a poor substitute for learning how to run the sprints on Friday evenings and Saturday afternoons.
Without training that makes sense, we may show up at the athletic field where life is lived but eventually we will just hang with others who are not showing up anymore to run sprints.
Focus Thought: We need like hearted people in our life to help us begin and keep on following Jesus.
Jeremiah 12:5
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