Faithfully Willing to be Teachable, Part 1

"Everyone is worth loving, but not 

everyone is worth investing in" 

~Rob Reimer~

To recognize the human limitation is essential for proper discipleship and leadership development. This statement by itself is setting up a mentality that governs how we disciple and do it well.

Even as all of us who are called by God is also called to make disciples. But knowing how to go about discipling someone is equally important and it all comes down to knowing human limitation in order to do effective discipleship.

This is seen through what Jesus did himself while He is here on earth. As divine as He is, He is limited by also His humanity. And in His humanity is limitation of His presence and time and space to which He cannot invest in every single person that  seeks after Him. Thus, He limits His investment in only 12. But even in the midst of the 12, He focuses on 3, and among the 3, 1 He would ordained to carry on the church. Jesus in His limits know that He cannot reach out to everyone, what more are we to recognize how much we can do.

In the event that the rich young ruler who came to Jesus and seek guidance on eternal life, Jesus looked the man with much love but did not find Himself investing in him simply because of His limitations that He found no worth pursuing the rich young ruler and invest in Him, if he is not willing to adhere to the 1 simple instruction of Jesus.

Therefore we seek to invest and disciple people who are willing to learn. This is in no way portraying selective intent of who deserves love but it is about what one personality can influence. It would be utter pointlessness if we were to deliberately invest in someone who would not open themselves to learning and teaching and therefore looking for someone else whom there is better connection and leave those who do not work well with you to be discipled by someone else that can better influence them.

If they don't listen, do not waste too much time, move on to someone else that will listen...