Good disciplemaking requires both intentionality and relationality. It means being strategic and being social. Most of us are bent one way or the other. Were naturally relational, but lacking in intentionality. Or we find it easy to be intentional, but not relational. We typically tip (or sometimes lean) one way or the other as we begin the disciplemaking process. But tipping and leaning wont cover the full picture of what life-on-life disciplemaking requires. Its not just friend-to-friend, and its not just teacher-to-student. Its both. There is the sharing of ordinary life (relationship) and seeking to initiate and make the most of teachable moments (intentionality). There are the long walks through Galilee and the sermons on the mount. Disciplemaking is both organic and engineered, relational and intentional, with shared context and shared content, quality and quantity time.
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About David Mathis, Habits of Grace: Enjoying Jesus through the Spiritual Disciplines
David Mathis, Habits of Grace: Enjoying Jesus through the Spiritual Disciplines.