{"id":2180,"date":"2015-10-06T22:01:34","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T22:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journeyonleadership.brentwoodbaptistonline.com\/?p=2180"},"modified":"2015-10-06T22:01:34","modified_gmt":"2015-10-06T22:01:34","slug":"what-are-you-trying-to-produce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadership.brentwoodbaptist.com\/adult-discipleship\/what-are-you-trying-to-produce\/","title":{"rendered":"What Are You Trying to Produce?"},"content":{"rendered":"<address>By Jay Fennell<\/address>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">As it pertains to your LIFE Group, what are you trying to produce? What, through your leadership, are you trying to accomplish in the lives of your people?<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">These are questions that LIFE Group leaders must reflect upon regularly. If not, you run the risk of producing something contrary to what Jesus tells us to produce. So the question then becomes: What does He want us to produce? <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">To answer this question, recall Jesus\u2019 encounter with Peter and Andrew in Matthew 4. The brothers are casting their net by the lake and Jesus approaches them and says, \u201cCome follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.\u201d Jesus was telling them that He would make them into something they are already doing. They would fish, but with a Kingdom purpose. They would not fish for fish anymore. They would fish for people. Notice also that Jesus didn\u2019t tell them He would make them \u201ccatch\u201d people. The catching is what He will do. No, the disciples were simply called to fish. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">We see also in Matthew 28 where Jesus tells the disciples to make more disciples by baptizing in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit and teaching them to be obedient to everything that Jesus has said and done. In other words, they are to fish for people and point them to Jesus. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">As LIFE Group leaders, our goal is not to merely produce Bible trivia experts. Nor is the goal to simply uncover a few truths so that group members become better people with modified behaviors that make them feel good about themselves. No, we want to produce fishermen. Our end goal is to invest in people God has given us, help them grow to be like Jesus, and teach them to fish. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">Jesus\u2019 offer to Peter and Andrew was so compelling that they dropped their nets \u201cat once\u201d and followed Him. They gave up their livelihood and their family business to fish in a new way. A way that had eternal impact. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">Let\u2019s work to produce the same thing that Jesus produced, disciples who fish for people, and who are making an eternal impact for the Kingdom of God. <\/span><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Jay Fennell As it pertains to your LIFE Group, what are you trying to produce? What, through your leadership, are you trying to accomplish in the lives of your people? These are questions that LIFE Group leaders must reflect upon regularly. 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