It takes a community …

To make a disciple.

Perhaps that’s why pastor-centric, institutional spectator churches are so ineffective at actual discipleship …

And produce so many carnal “Christians” these days.

Perhaps that’s also why church, as actually commanded in the New Testament, instead is a simple and participatory community …

Where discipleship “naturally” happens as they gather together to mutually build up each other through ministry one to another out of the abundant, diverse gifts and abilities God distributes among us.