Let's go through the four steps again: The infant disciple, The child disciple, the young adult disciple, the mature disciple, and in this process is it's continuously moving and evolving in different areas of your life.

Child disciples are people who are onboard with core beliefs of scripture, but like infants they're vulnerable to insecurity and doubt and they're probably hesitant to share their faith. In this stage they are trying to develop a personal relationship with God.

Spiritual infancy is a dangerous phase of life. Just like physical babies, if they're not cared for well, given the attention that they need, the love they need, they might die or develop abnormally.

What does it look like to measure growth on a spiritual scale?

Common vision creates common movement, and we want everyone moving in the same direction. Far too often in the church world, we suffer from misdirection or what the army calls mission creep. In other words, we get distracted.

In church after church they had some efforts towards disciple-making that looked good for two, three, maybe even up to five years, but then it would begin to fall in on itself because there wasn't a foundation that was strong enough to support the difficulties that come in the culture building process.

Iis there a difference between Christian parenting and disciple making?

The first call that Jesus gave to those, those disciples was to be with. The relationship came first, the mission was secondary to the relationship.

So a FAT person is the irreducible triumvirate of selection. So when we think about selection, so who are we going to choose to disciple?

How did you we intentionality and relationally in Jesus's ministry?

Your job, what I'm asking you is to go and do after I leave here is not just to stay in your holy huddle. It's not just to stay with those that we've already been talking to. What you need to go do is go OUT!

2 Timothy 3:17 says, “That the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.” Our primary tool is the word, but there are other tools as well…

We all have insecurities and fears around this idea of inviting someone into a disciple-making relationship. And so we look at the example of Jesus, what did he do here?

Can you name two things that Jesus did that someone else didn't do the same sort of thing?

If you're not dedicated to your disciplines, you'll be destroyed by your distractions.

What's your excuse for not following the final command that the Lord Jesus gave us?

Why is disciple making such a foreign concept in the church? Especially, when it's clearly a pillar of Jesus's ministry, like when we look at the life of Christ and one of the things we always strive to do here is look at the life of Christ. His ministry seemed to be founded on disciple-making as one of the key pillars.

The goal for the person we are discipling is not just to follow Jesus in their own personal life and personal walk. The goal is that they would follow Jesus in their personal life and personal walk, but then go out and help others to do with them, what I've done with that person or what the discipler’s done with that person.

I would say that Scripture is the primary way that disciples can grow in their faith. And we're just kind of unpack that a little bit. Of that truth, that it's the primary way that disciples grow in their life. And we want to look at that together today. So Tony, I kind of threw that out there that this is the biggest way, the primary way that disciples grow in their life.

That's right disciple making. There are some, and I think all of them are helpful to some degree. And one of the reasons we wanted to do this episode is because I think as we look at disciple-making from different angles and perspectives, then we get closer to clarity in our mind.