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Disciples are made in the context of community, part 1

So how do we help people develop these kinds of friendships? We teach and model the characteristics of true love, of true friendship. We help them discover and understand that a friend is…

Fun to be with,

Real (not superficial),

Interested and interesting,

Encouraging,

Nice and (when needed) not nice, and

Dependable.

Dependable friends are hard to find, but dependable friendships can be developed over time. As people draw closer to one another in heartfelt love, as they share the fun of each other’s company, as they become real with their successes and struggles, as they grow interested in each other’s lives and interesting to each other, as they encourage and cheer on one another to their full potential, as they demonstrate Christian love by being nice most of the time but not nice when they must—they will form intimate and dependable relationships that can stand the tests and the trials of time.

Do you have any relationships like that? More important, is your group made up of friends like that? Teachers don’t create disciples on their own. Disciples are made within the context of a body. They are made within the context of relationships that can happen in small groups. This is why the first I of the DISCIPLES acrostic is so key. It is the job of the disciple-making teacher to see that it happens.