Discipleship Training Course

DTC-DISCIPLESHIP TRAINING COURSE
With this scripture in mind, let’s look at where Jesus started and
progressed in His leadership.
There is so much in leadership today that is focused on reaching
the masses. Many feel that to be a successful leader one has to
speak at big conferences, host popular events, publish bestselling
books, write successful blogs, or have a massive social media
following. Simply put, their goal is breadth. They want to extend
their influence to as many people as possible. Now there is nothing
wrong with that, but Jesus strangely had a much different
approach.
His goal was not reaching the masses or popularity. In fact, as
strange as it sounds to us today, He actively discouraged the
publicity and all the “Facebook posts”. On more than one
occasion, after performing amazing miracles, he told those who
witnessed or experienced it, not to tell anybody.
Luke 5:14 Then Jesus instructed him not to tell anyone what had
happened.
What a contrast to what we are encouraged to do today. Thinking
that if the world doesn’t know every action or detail then there is
not impact. Well we see a different version through Jesus’
leadership. Instead, Jesus focused on true depth and long
term impact and focused on smaller groups than we might
imagine or have come to expect from Him.
Jesus had a core group of 3 disciples (close brothers) where He
focused on deep transparency and accountability. He then
focused on the 12 where He focused on walking together with
them rubbing off His heart, principles and Gods plan in an intimate
fashion. Then there was the larger group of 72 that He focused on
teaching and leading them into serving within the crowds through
witnessing and action. And Jesus also spent time teaching the
larger crowds through stories and manifesting miracles in their
midst.
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