It takes time and effort to disciple others into a more sincere walk with God.
The first forward command from our God was to go out and make disciples.
Instead we just go about our own earthly (worldly) business and consider it a bold victory to just merely invite someone to a building to attend a supposed church service. This is not even close to what Jesus meant by discipling others. They should first be disciples (taught and baptized first) before stepping foot within the fellowship. (see the Great Commission in Matthew 28 and Lamentations 1:10 for the specific context as to why this is a must).
The cost of discipling someone within the Kingdom has eternal rewards and is costly in the here and now but it is well worth it.
It most likely will get hot and abrasive but feelings must be understood as worthless in the scope of eternity. This is a hard concept to embrace in our emotion driven world but emotions do not dictate truth.
If my feelings get hurt because I am offended when a brother comes up alongside me to admonish, rebuke or exhort me for something I am in error of then that is my pitiful loss and solely my mistake. I should count it all joy when this happens. I should not be easily offended if I am truly a child of God.
Discipling is a rarity today rather than the exception which the Word of God says it ought to be in the Body Christ.
Believers out there, start sharpening one another.
The time is at hand for us to be sharp and in the spirit as the days are truly getting darker!
Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend. Proverbs 27:17
So…
…let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching. Hebrews 10:24-25
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