In April the Nebraska Association of Regular Baptist Churches held its spring conference in Gretna. Our own Clare Jewell spoke on the theme “To the Next Generation.”
Being just a few hours away, I attended to represent RBM and to connect with pastors, their families, and congregations.
Here are a few of Clare’s zingers:
• “The North American church is dramatically overprogrammed and underdiscipled.”
• “Have we made a disciple if our disciple is not making a disciple?”
• “Spiritual grandchildren bring the greatest joy.”
• “We may have created in our church programming an illusion of disciple making.”
• “Sometimes we have faith trained out of us, and we end up not being disciple makers, not involved in the basics of what we know we should do.”
Like an umpire dusting off home plate so all can see it clearly, let’s sweep our home plate, addressing two key items. Those items: resistance to change in churches and disciple-making as central to church ministry.
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David E. Strope is interim national representative of the GARBC.
