| Institution: Rigid Container (Clean, Sterile, Nice, Pretty) Unable to Reproduce |
| Body of Christ, living within institution (Messy, Alive, Not as Pretty) Able to Reproduce. |
| "Disciple making institution" is an oxymoron. The church with an institutional worldview fails to thrive because it is more focused on rebuilding the temple, an unchanging institution, than on providing the spiritual nurture necessary to make disciples who make disciples who make disciples. Cups do not make coffee; institutions do not make disciples. It is sheep that make sheep. This nurture requires personal sacrifice. The transition to spiritual nurturing involves moving from an exciting but shallow ministry with many people to calm, deeply nurturing relationships with just a few people who have names. These people who have names are called disciples. Jesus indicated in John 2:19-22 his intention to replace the temple, an institution, with the body of Christ, a relational disciple-making network. The potential threat to the institutional temple is the motivation for his execution. --- Seminar One, www.disciplewalk.com/resources |
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| Empty Fulfilled |
| Hot coffee needs a cup ... and the cup needs the coffee. Coffee without a cup is a mess. A cup without coffee is just empty. |