PASTORAL DISCIPLESHIP PASTOR AS DISCIPLER Dr Christopher Cone

PASTORAL DISCIPLESHIP: PASTOR AS DISCIPLER Dr. Christopher Cone drcone. com calvary. edu

Analogy of Growth: Stages of Maturity ■ New birth– believing in Christ – Jn 3 ■ Infancy – learning truth, milk of the word – 1 Cor 3: 1 -2, 1 Pet 2: 2 -3 ■ Childhood –learning how to learn truth, solid food – 1 Cor 3: 2, Heb 5: 12 ■ Adolescence – processing, analyzing, and applying the word – Tit 2: 6, 1 Jn 2: 13 -14 ■ Adulthood – being mature, applying and sharing the word, parenting – Ezra 7: 10, 2 Tim 2: 2, Tit 2: 2 -8

Pastoral Discipleship Models ■ Examples from the commissions – Mt. 28: 18 -20, Mk 16: 15, Lk 24: 47 -53, Acts 1: 1 -8. ■ Example of Christ with His disciples – Mt 13, 17: 1, 17: 24 -27, 24: 1 -3 ■ Example of Paul with Timothy – 1 Tim 1: 2 -18, 2 Tim 1: 2 -4, 2: 1

Pastoral Emphasis: Stages of Maturity ■ ■ New birth– pastoral preaching, evangelism Infancy – pastoral teaching, depositing knowledge Childhood –pastoral teaching, modeling learning Adolescence – pastoral teaching, modeling thinking and method ■ Adulthood – pastoral teaching, peer relationship, modeling fatherhood

Pastoral Challenges in Discipleship ■ ■ ■ Time Finding faithful men The banquet hall or the kitchen? Many? Few? One? Setting the agenda ? ? ?