Luke 10 - it only works if we lay down our lives like Jesus did

Floyd McClung's CPx students have returned from outreach ... I love some of the 'Jesus comments' he writes

... When Jesus sent out the 70 they came back with joy because of what God did through them. Jesus affirmed them, he taught them, and he corrected them. And he invited them to be leaders in the movement he started to change the world.

Jesus didn't come to waste his time or life for nothing. When we debrief the 70 we sent out we will invite them to give their lives for the same cause Jesus lived and died for. We believe in the power of the gospel to transform lives, but it only works if we lay down our lives like Jesus did.

Our 70 disciple/leaders are students in CPx, a discipleship/leadership training program. Many of them are enlisting with All Nations full time to keep on making disciples and training leaders and planting churches. Others will return to their home churches or movements to do the same thing. Others are going into the market place to make disciples and start simple churches.

Doing what Jesus did is the most important thing a person can do with their life. It's the most important thing a person can do to help change Africa. The non-Muslim parts of Africa have been evangelized many times over. But they have not been discipled.

The world doesn't need more decisions - it needs disciples, and disciple making leaders. It needs men and women who have had their hearts and minds transformed by the gospel, men and women who don't ask what they get out of it, but what they can do to give their life away.

In CPx we teach principles and practices to start disciple making, simple church planting movements, just like Jesus did. We do it in the market place and in the nations.

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