FOLLOW-UP OF NEWLY CONVERTED CHRISTIANS - PART 1

Hi friends beautiful evening to you all, today we would be looking into the mandate that God gave us as his children and i want to encourage each and everyone of us to be part of this great mandate.

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Matt 4 vs 18-19 says:

As Jesus was walking beside the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon called Peter and his brother Andrew. They were casting a net into the lake, for they were fishermen.

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“Come, follow me,” Jesus said, “and I will send you out to fish for people.”

Soul winning is like fishing, as soon as you catch fish, you enter into another level of labour to preserve it from spoiling and wasting.

The moment a soul is converted, it is the beginning of a life journey with the Lord Jesus.

That soul begins to pass through a process of being made by the Lord Jesus into what he wants him to be.

It is God's divine intervention to make every new convert into a particular useful person he wants him to be.

But a new convert cannot be what God wants him to be if left alone on his own just as a new born baby cannot, as he is helpless.

He has to be nursed and gradually taught how to follow the Lord step by step into God's purpose for his life.

The great commission is not just about making converts and then leaving them alone. Every soul that is converted has to be discipled.

Matt 28:19-20 says:

Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

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and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”

God's plan is for us to bear fruit and that our fruit should remain.

If the souls we win will remain in the Lord and follow him, we are commanded to disciple them. The Lord Jesus Christ did this work in the lives of his disciples as they followed him everywhere. He has in turn committed this same work of disciple making into our hands.

What we call follow-up is the beginning of disciple-making in the life of any soul that we win to the Lord.

The eternal foundation has been laid in that person's life as he repeats and receives Christ, it is important not to stop at that level but proceed to build.

Stay tuned for the part 2, we would be looking at what it means to follow-up a soul.

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