I can t bring you any orange juice. Our machine is broken. We were surrounded by millions of oranges, and I knew they had oranges in the kitchen, because orange slices garnished our plates. Hardly, we were surrounded by thousands of gallons of juice. The problem was they had become dependent on a machine to get it.
Christians are sometimes like that.
They may be surrounded by dozens of Bibles in their homes and countless Christian resources in their communities, but if something should happen to the Sunday morning preaching service, they would have no nourishment for their souls. The problem is not a lack of spiritual food. The problem is that many Christians haven t grown enough to know how to get it for themselves. Our Disciple Development Process is designed to help people belong, grow, serve, and multiply spiritually. Jesus did not say our task was to create attenders or simply to draw a crowd.