Accurate Followership

Hi, is been a long time we c each other. How u guys doing there? Hope u all enjoying ur holiday =)

Do you like to hold power? To be honestly, I do. But the question is can i and how? My pastor taught us about the ACCURATE FOLLOWERSHIP recently.

In Acts 16:1-4

(He came to Derbe and then to Lystra, where a disciple named Timothy lived, whose mother was a Jewish and a believer, but whose father was a Greek. The brothers at Lystra and Iconium spoke well of him. Paul wanted to take him along on the journey, so he circumcised him because of the Jews who lived in that area, for they all know that his father was a Greek. As they travelled from town to town, they delivered the decisions reached by the apostles and elders in Jerusalem for the people to obey.)

In this few verses, it show us different level of spiritual maturity in followership.

1) Converter- Also mean new believer. They have clear decision of following Jesus, but they not ready to receive the salvation. Sometimes they will think that Jesus is one of the “Gods”.

2) Believer- Those who accepted the salvation and willing to change for the betterment of being a Christian. They started to change their bad habits, old ways from their heart.

3) A member of the church-When reaching this stage, people will start serving and getting some responsible in church. Why we serve? Because we love our God, we want to show our care and love to Him who is above us.

4) Discipleship- Follow and observe what the leaders do.  Look and learn how the leader manage, arrange, solve or conduct things. This stage is the preparation for becoming a leader. You need to know leaders’ direction and finish it with them.

5) Minister- Minister means to serve people. Also where u start to perform what you observe from how the leader did.  When more powers come to you, you got more responsibility to do and fulfill.

6) The Son- Lastly, becoming a true leader. The Son of God knows His heart and His purpose. They will not perform anything that doesn’t please to God. When Jesus is in the desert, devil come and tempted Jesus for changing the stone into bread and giving him the whole world if he bows before devil. But Jesus rejected because he knows the power that given to him is from God to perform miracle to save people, NOT TO SHOW THE GREATNESS OF HIM. Therefore, a leader doesn’t mean that person could do everything he/she wants or desired but to perform what God has put in their hearts. And also not to manipulate your power but to decide the correct and accurate way to lead your people.

Hope our people could understand where we are and what we need to do in every stage. This not only helpful for our spiritual life, but also will help us in our work in Christian Fellowship. Enjoy.

Regards,

Ziyin