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Five Stages of Discipleship

 

 We are very excited about the…

 ‘Five Stages of Discipleship’

 … we have launched here in South East Cyprus.

  The ‘Five Stages’ came out of work and prayer following our Church Conference in April this year. At this conference we looked at ourselves, our Mission, our Vision and Strategy.

 Our Mission Statement (see ‘Mission and Vision’ page) makes it clear to us just what we are supposed to be doing here as the Body of Christ in this place. The Vision Statement (see ‘Mission and Vision’ page) is a wording of what we believe the Church will look like in 5 years time. We are firmly of the opinion that both the Mission and Vision are from God.

 After the Conference, the leadership team (Michael, Stuart and Lawrence) met to pray, study and to work out ways in which we could get going on the Mission and begin to see the Vision come to be. The results of this work we call ‘Five Stages of Discipleship’.

 The idea is as follows…

 Each and every member of the local church will be introduced to each of the Five Stages. Many existing members will have already passed through some stages or be at a particular stage in their Christian life. Some may be at more than one stage at a time. Those who are not connected with church at all will, of course, not have passed through any stage.

 Our task as a church body will be to put the basic requirements in place and to encourage any and all to participate in some or all of the stages as appropriate but eventually all five.

 The Five Stages are… 

Getting Interested - Getting Committed - Getting Learning -

- Getting Serving - Getting Leading

 Example 1.  A non believer will first have to ‘get interested’ ; our task is to enable them to do that.

 Example 2.  A believer who has recently become a Christian will need be helped to more deeply understand the Bible and it’s relevance in their lives; in other words, ‘get learning.’ 

 Example 3.  A person who is well versed in biblical truth and is already serving the church may well be ready to “lead’ within the church. By leading we mean to have a particular Ministry of their own within the church structure. (if you would like more details of each stage and how you might ‘join in’ please get in touch with me. See ‘Contact us’ page)

You will see that the main principle is about ‘ongoing discipleship,’ a program where everyone is, learning, serving and eventually leading. This process will never stop. As we have more ‘leaders’ engaged in ‘Ministry’, more ‘Ministry’ will take place and more shall become interested simply because we shall cover more ground.

We have produced an outline of the practical ways in which The Five Stages will work. It will involve individuals, house groups, social groups, large group Bible study, large group prayer meetings, small prayer group meetings and much more.

The ‘outline’ has been filled in, schedules arranged and published, invitations gone out. My expectation is that every member of the fellowship will join the scheme at a stage appropriate to themselves and everyone will encourage others. I want it to be clear that this is how we ‘do church’ here in South East Cyprus and I believe by doing so we will attract many to Christ. 

These are exciting times! We are convinced that the Lord has great things in store for us, His Church! We believe that a time will come when some shall ask, ‘Do you remember when we started all this?’ And we shall respond ‘Thanks be to God!’

Michael

August 2007

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39 Dionisou Street  

Protoras  

Paralimni 5296  

CYPRUS  

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