Discipleship

One of the most misunderstood concepts in the church is that of discipleship. The church today has come to believe that discipleship = programming. This equation seems to have replaced the idea that believers are to disciple other believers. Here's a link to Mark Dever endorsing the book The Trellis and the Vine. While I have not read this book I thought I'd share Dr. Dever's review. I think the portion he read speaks to my goal of having a simple-church.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FYKog12ld4

It's complicated.

Church has gotten really complicated. The reason I've decided to title this blog "simple-church" is that the Church should be simple. I mean, most evangelical churches have "ministries" for every age group and small groups for every interest. We seem to have lost the simplicity of the early church. What did they do? Devote themselves to the teachings of the Apostles and care for one another. That's it? Yep, that's it. We have allowed the non-Christian culture to influence our ecclesiology. We have allowed our desire to get "seekers" into our buildings to overwhelm our Biblical mandate. The church has become overly concerned about creating a "worship experience", whatever that is. The pursuit of worldliness and high attendance figures has interfered with the church preaching sound doctrine and creating true disciples.