Intentional Discipleship

I was reading today about Palm Valley Church. They try to do the vast majority of their formal discipleship on weekends. As a result, they are very intentional about planning their weekends. Read the following snipit from Stirred Up Leadership

The Palm Valley team thinks differently about weekend services. Every week, they focus everything on one thing, and ask five questions before planning each service or sermon.

1. What do they need to know?
2. Why do they need to know it?
3. What do they need to do?
4. Why do they need to do it?
5. How can we help them remember it?

As a community of church leaders, there’s a lot we can all learn from what God is doing at Palm Valley.

I actually like this list as a list we should all regularly be asking about our efforts to help our people be discipled. However, I would add one CRITICAL question.

"How can they do it?"

Equipping doesn't stop with telling people what they need to do and then helping them remember what you told them? That is cognitive change, not life-change. The church must tell people what needs to change and the help them do it! That's true discipleship.