CDN Blog

When you’re in your twenties, it’s easy to feel like you know more than you really do. But as time progresses, reality pushes back. The same can be true about faith. What once felt like a clear set of rules or simple beliefs becomes seasons of questions, doubts, and wrestling. Maturity has a way of showing us that life isn’t as straightforward as we imagined.

Our discipleship needs to be focused on replication. A Barna study shows 89% of all church leaders define discipleship as “being transformed to become more like Jesus.” Unfortunately, in the same survey, it was found that “making disciples, or ‘winning new believers to become followers of Jesus Christ’ is the least-commonly chosen goal of discipleship.” If we seek to follow Jesus with our lives, we should follow his method of discipleship in reaching the lost world.

The Church has a significant role to play in shaping healthy mental habits. We have the words of the master Teacher, Jesus, and those who followed Him. We have the words of life to renew minds that are plagued with anxiety.