My official title is “Minister of Discipleship,” and when I share this with friends, family, and colleagues I am often asked, “So what do you do?” I try to explain by saying I’m sort of like a teaching pastor crossed with a missions pastor.
As a staff, we are reading Len Sweet’s Aquachurch 2.0: Piloting Your Church in Today’s Fluid Culture. This morning, as I was reading, I came across an insight that helps me define my position. Len reminded me, “…the very word disciple means “learner.” In Greek, mathetes (which we translate as disciple) comes from mathano, which literally means “student” or “learner.”
In a sense then, I’m the Minister of “Learners.” That means that I’m not only responsibile for sharing information or knowledge in the teaching aspect of my position, but for helping people integrate that into concrete acts of mission and love of neighbor. In other words, I think the multiple aspects of my position will help me remember that true knowledge is not just a “head thing,” but a “whole life thing.”
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“Minister of Discipleship” – I don’t know, it sounds like a professional wrestler to me.