Discipleship and growth

Joanthan Leeman  |  Features  |  Church life
Date posted:  1 Mar 2020
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Discipleship and growth

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You disciple everyone around you. Whether you mean to or not, inevitably and invariably, your actions and words impact people in your world. You assist them toward righteousness or wickedness.

That’s true whether you are three or 30, a senior pastor or the office intern. Yes, people higher on the totem pole make a bigger impact. They have more social leverage. But everyone leaves some dent on others.

Human beings are impressionable, mimicking creatures. That’s how culture works. One person speaks or screams, dances or dresses, jokes or prays. Other people notice. Then copy. And culture spreads.

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