Good disciplemaking requires both intentionality and relationality. It means being strategic and being social. Most of us are bent one way or the other. We’re naturally relational, but lacking in intentionality. Or we find it easy to be intentional, but not relational. We typically tip (or sometimes lean) one way or the other as we begin the disciplemaking process. But tipping and leaning won’t cover the full picture of what life-on-life disciplemaking requires. It’s not just friend-to-friend, and it’s not just teacher-to-student. It’s both. There is the sharing of ordinary life (relationship) and seeking to initiate and make the most of teachable moments (intentionality). There are the long walks through Galilee and the sermons on the mount. Disciplemaking is both organic and engineered, relational and intentional, with shared context and shared content, quality and quantity time. David Mathis
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  1. For the glory of God, the good of others, and the satisfaction of our souls, the aim of the Christian life is our coming to share in… Christlikeness or godliness–which is ‘holiness’ rightly understood.
  2. Prayer doesn’t begin with our needs, but with his bounty.
  3. It shouldn’t surprise us…to find that prayer is not finally about getting things from God, but getting God.
  4. He is holy, and so we worship (adoration). He is merciful, and so we repent (confession). He is gracious, and so we express appreciation (thanksgiving). He is loving and caring, and so we petition him for ourselves, our family, our friends, and our world (supplication).
  5. This is the heart of prayer–not getting things from God, but getting God.
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