It has been a tremendously busy week. Over the last few days there have been staff meetings, budget meetings, paper work, worship planning, intern training, missions planning, sermon preparation, house hunting, and more. Needless to say, when I got back to the house tonight I was exhausted. I was greeted at the house with Richard (one of our youth pastor’s interns) and Robby (my intern) hanging out. After I grabbed something to eat, I found myself being refreshed and encouraged by the discussion with the two young men of God regarding Jesus, scripture, and ministry.
These young guys aren’t just well versed in Sunday school stories. They are asking deep questions, searching the original language, and making sure that they are interpreting scripture in line with God’s nature. They are serving in the church. They are reaching their friends for Christ. They desire the things of God. I was challenged and convicted. Moreover, I was excited and filled with hope.
We live in a time when we are seeing the world in heightened turmoil. It is a time in western society where we are seeing the Christian faith ridiculed in the media and the rise secularism. It is a time where immorality is entertainment and the average American is biblically ignorant. BUT in this time, I also see these two young men who are rooted and grounded in love, filled with the Spirit and Truth, impacting their world, and beginning to walk out their calling with anointing. It’s not just them, I am seeing more and more of them in our local church here and in others I have come in contact with.
Paul Wilson, the worship pastor at Eagle’s Nest Fellowship, said to me that when we go to the scriptures and observe the relationship of the prophets Elijah and Elisha we learn that, if we’ve done our job right, the generation discipled under us can walk twice as far with twice the anointing. That means we’ve go to do our job. We’ve got to disciple them and then let them lead as we shepherd them.
Let’s pray for those the Lord has given us to disciple, raise them in the knowledge of the word, model Christlikeness for them, help equip them for the work of service. Have hope, don’t be surprised when we do this we will see the double portion rise in the next generation.
