Larry Kreider and Merle Shenk on Practical Discipleship

What does it truly mean to make disciples? Join Larry Kreider and Merle Shenk as they discuss the significance of discipleship, share practical tools they have learned, and how having a heart to release and empower those you are walking with is a key for healthy disciple-making.

Highlights:

• 2 Timothy 2:2
• Matthew 28:19-20 
• One type of spiritual parenting is based on control, and one is based on releasing. Desire to pour into the next generation so that they can go further in God than you have gone.
• In order to be a healthy spiritual parent or mentor, ask people to speak into your own life and receive input yourself.
• A key test to know if you are controlling or releasing comes when the person you are walking with feels called to do something that is different than you had in mind for them. And that is the test: can you release them to follow God in that moment? In those situations, we have to be able to release, because it is about God’s Kingdom being built and not our own.
• Who are the people, in this season of your life, that you are called to pour into? 

Related Resources:

• The Cry for Spiritual Fathers and Mothers by Larry Kreider
• DOVE International

For more information about Larry Kreider, his books, daily devotionals, small-group resources, or other teachings, visit larrykreider.com.