Marks of a Healthy Christian at Chesapeake Presbyterian Church

 

 

Why plan discipleship?  Why not let it happen organically?  Discipleship, developing growing and maturing followers of Jesus, is crucial to a healthy church.  Creating a strategy will not hinder organic discipleship, but foster it.

 

“Not thinking through a strategy as a church for winning and adding and shepherding more and more people is not an option.  Because no strategy is a strategy.  A heartless one.”  John Piper

 

The marks of a healthy Christian at Chesapeake Presbyterian Church will include a growing love for God and love for neighbor, growing knowledge of God’s word, bearing spiritual fruit.

 

A Healthy Christian at CPC will:

·        Regularly attend worship

·        Be a committed member of a community group

·        Serve on a ministry team or in the community

·        Support the work of CPC

·        Be involved in life on life relationships

 

We will train and equip our members to live out of the Gospel by impacting their hearts, and instructing their minds with Scripture.  In order to accomplish this goal, CPC will offer the following discipleship courses on a rotating schedule:

·        Christianity Explored

·        Discipleship Explored

·        How People Change

·        Helping Others Change

·        The Peacemaker

·        Theology

·        Living for the King/Gospel Transformation/Sonship

·        Officer Training

·        Leadership Training

 

We will encourage discipleship and mentoring relationships within the church.  When mature believers invest in young believers, and peers encourage one another, God’s people will mature and grow. This culture of one on one, life on life, will only be successful if the leadership practices it.  It is important for every Christian, to have someone further down the journey, peers, and someone they can invest in who is not as far along in their journey of following Christ.

 

While we recognize that God is most concerned with our hearts, we do believe a person’s heart can be known by its fruit.  The marks of a healthy Christian are in no way meant to produce Phariseeism, but rather our best understanding of what a growing, vibrant follower of Christ looks like.

 

 

 

~ by chesapeakepc on November 26, 2008.