Individual Discipleship Plan

Specialized for: HELEN

Alright, it seems like you have a firmer grasp of the Bible than most in the youth group.  Overall, I'm pretty impressed with the reasons you provided on why you feel lead to lead.  Your reasons are Biblically based and seem to be well-founded.

Let me provide you these suggestions in response to all you have written:

1.) To grow mature in the Lord does not mean one necessarily needs to take on a leadership position and helping others.  The first step to maturing after baptism is the willingness to identify where you need to grow spiritually first.  Unless you can nourish your own spiritual growth well, it will be hard to help others nourish theirs.  Remember, teaching someone something you're not familiar with isn't as effective as teaching someone something you've practiced before.  Continue in the faith, keep reading the Word, use Bible reading guides to help you out if necessary.  Keep a prayer journal (if you're not already) to see how God's speaking to you through prayer and reading the Bible.

2.) It's good to know you believe in the power of God.  Many people don't these days.  You seek to train disciples and build up elite warriors...excellent, I'll pray that you do in the near future.

3.) I noticed you wanted to find your spiritual gifts.  I find it interesting how the leaders haven't helped you all develop that yet.  I'll talk to them and I'll get back to you about how we can start helping you discover and practice your spiritual gifts next week.

As for this week, we went over the Calling of Ezekiel and paralleled Ezekiel eating the scroll to how we each need to receive our daily bread from the Word as well so that we can be prepared to not only preach, but to also teach the Bible to others.

So this week's devotional guide (the one I gave you is now secondary stuff) is as follows:
- The Call of Ezekiel: The importance of reading the Bible and the willingness to tell others about the Good News
     Ezekiel 2 & Ezekiel 3 (pay close attention to Ezekiel 2:9-3:8
     and Ezekiel 3:17-19)
- The Call of Jonah: An example of who not to be and how not to act when God calls us to do something
     Jonah 1, Jonah 3, & Jonah 4 (pay close attention to Jonah and
     God's conversation in chapter 4...compare this to Job and God's
     conversation from Job 40:1-42:6)
- The Call of Simon Peter: Yes, God can use anyone for His kingdom, even a stuttering fisherman
    John 1:35-42 & Matthew 4:18-22 (the well known phrase "I will
    make your fishers of men" is found here)
- The Call of the Apostle Paul:  We can either do this the nice way or the hard way...well, let's just say Paul chose the hard way
    Acts 9:1-31

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