In my conversations with him, the Lord began to stir in me a deep desire to see, if it's fair to say, a restoration of biblical discipleship in and through the local church. I was always talking to Prof about disciple-making. I did notice, Bob, that the guys around me-that were also students and friends of mine-they were always talking about church leadership and preaching. I was actually in seminary Howard Hendrix was one of my greatest heroes and mentors at Dallas Seminary, and I would pick his brain every Friday at lunch. Kennon: No at the time, I was not pastoring.
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I don't know/I don't know how to parse out which way I lean, but those are two great passions: God's Word and making disciples.īob: When you started Downline, were you starting in for the people in your church? Kennon: I love to study God's Word-maybe that's my lean-but I'm so enamored with the Great Commission and wrapping my life around it every second of every day/what that looks like. And at the same time to be inspired and equipped to run heartily on the Great Commission that Jesus has invited us in.īob: Do you lean one direction or the other? We're hoping to infuse-kind of a combination of what you're talking about-a deeper passion for God through His Word, a deeper understanding of His Word, to be nourished by His Word. 22, nine months later.Īs we go, which is a rich gospel-centered study in God's Word, we are also bringing practical evangelism/discipleship training throughout. We literally start the nine months in Genesis 1 we close the book in Rev. The primary vehicle by which we do that is a nine-month institute we call it the Downline Institute, where we are just as you guys have talked about-we are equipping people with the Word of God. Kennon: Absolutely it's a great introduction forDownline.Downline is a ministry committed to equipping believers-just as Ephesians 4-for the work of the ministry/for the work of making disciples. Explain to listeners what Downlineis all about, because I think it touches on both of the things we've been talking about here. It's a joy to be here.īob: Kennon Vaughan is the pastor of Harvest Church in Memphis and also gives leadership to a ministry called Downline. Kennon Vaughan is joining us from Memphis. I think people will lean in one direction or another.īob: Yes we've got another pastor, who's joining us today on FamilyLife Today, from nearby Memphis, Tennessee we're here in Little Rock. I love the abstraction, and it's harder for me to get to the practical side of things. I think our church is probably prone more in the other direction: “Let's study and know, and let's get deep.” We probably need a little more prodding I probably need to do a little more prodding, as a pastor, and draw the net and bring the application home. I think the personality sort of followed that in our church.Īnn: And what about you, Bob?-you're a pastor.īob: I'm a pastor. I think it's sort of an expression of my top gift, as probably an evangelist and so I'm the guy, that when I preach, I'm always asking, “So what?”-you know-“What are we going to do with this?” Obviously, we want to go deep biblically/we want to go deep in Scripture but I'm always going to lean that way. You've been a pastor for, how many decades now?-three-plus decades right?īob: And as a pastor, would you say people in your church are more prone to want to study and go deep in God's Word-īob: -or to want to live missionally: do evangelism and discipleship?ĭave: I mean, again, I'm being very sort of facetious right? But we are a church of action.
Stay with us.Īnd welcome to FamilyLife Today. What does it look like for you to live life on mission for God? You need a little equipping/a little training to figure that out? We're going to talk more about that today. Our hosts are Dave and Ann Wilson I'm Bob Lepine. Kennon: I think of 2 Corinthians 5: “If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation the old has gone, the new has come” All this from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation.” It's sad to me that somehow there's a divorce in our churches of folks that believe, “I'm saved, and the end of my salvation was me having a word of encouragement on Sunday that would get me through my week.”īob: This is FamilyLife Today for Friday, September 4 th. Bob: When God changes a person's life, He gives that person an assignment-a new mission/something to do.
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