This journey to becoming mature is an invitation to in return train and equip others to become mature. What type of master would we be if we do not allow our apprentice to reach their full potential?

That’s not true discipleship, that’s called ‘slavership’?

A master trains his disciples to acquire all the necessary craft skills and create opportunities for their growth. He disciples them with a heart desiring that his disciples aspire to excellence: knowing there is a risk that the apprentice opens a shop right by his. A master, however, will not share his knowledge to a slave: a slave is simply there to serve the master and his personal ambitions.

As we make disciples, let’s not have a mentality of slave-makers but disciple-makers. I specify not a mentality of a Master-to-Slave but a mentality of a Master-to-Disciple : pour into your disciples and equip them to build and reproduce.

That’s what Jesus did with the first disciples. King, He humbled himself and died to His own ambitions. Should we not as well?

Sankey S.