Discipleship is about reality. If it was about the transfer of information then people wouldn’t be necessary for it to happen. The church would loose it’s relevance and necessity. You can get information on the internet. You don’t need a person. What you can’t get without a person discipling you, is an outside perspective. We don’t know what we don’t know and the person who disciples me can see things I can’t. Discipleship is about reality. If during the discipleship process, I don’t allow the information to touch the deepest fears, hopes, doubts, or questions in my heart, I won’t grow or change. I need the info to sink deep enough into me to speak into the real issues that’s going on right now in my real life. Theory about potential futuristic situations just won’t cut it. I might be shallow but I also think very few people go there by themselves. Why? Because it’s uncomfortable and it hurts and like any good athlete needs a coach who will motivate him to go harder and further than he is able to on his own, we need people who will take us to those places in our lives where the word is needed to bring life, freedom, healing, or correction. Luke 6:47-48 says: “As for everyone who comes to me and hears my words and puts them into practice, I will show you what they are like. They are like a man building a house, who dug downdeep and laid the foundation on rock. When a flood came, the torrent struck that house but could not shake it, because it was well built.” Digging down deep most of the time is an uncomfortable process, but if we truly heed to these scriptures then that is what discipleship must deliver on.
have you been digging down deep and allowing God into the uncomfortable areas in your life?
have you been helping the people you disciple, to dig down deep, or have you just been sharing information?
What must you change today?
JJ Uys 
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