Nurturing People in the Kingdom of God

Part of the journey God has called us all on is to invite others into the journey and to help them learn to live lives of increasing surrender to and intimacy with God. We have some Bible words for those kinds of “inviting” activities: evangelism and discipleship. And there are more modern church-words that try to get at the same thing: conversion, proselytization, soul-winning, etc.

The problem is that most of those words have become a bit tainted for a lot of us. We’ve seen people engaged in those activities who are manipulative, aggressive, forceful, relentless. And we’ve seen those things done in ways that have been damaging and abusive and self-serving. And that has given us a bad taste in our mouths for those kinds of things.

I have no problem with the Bible words, provided we understand them correctly (which we don’t always). But I’d like to talk today about the need to help others along in a way that fits within the kingdom values we’ve been discussing for the last 17 episodes. And for me, the word that I use the most is the word nurture.

Join me today as we discuss . . .

1.  The idea of spiritual nurture.

2.  How our idea of what church is shapes our idea of what leadership looks like.

3.  The four components of spiritual health.

4.  The limits of theological education.

5.  The importance of emotional intelligence and its four components.

6.  The necessity of spiritual mothers and fathers.

7.  What it means to be a shepherd.

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