A Disciple-Maker’s Message
Gene A. Smith
DSMN-500 LUO
Dr. James H. Sulfridge
June 19, 2013

A disciple-maker’s message must consist of two major in an academic sense consists of two major elements: content and curriculum. The disciple-maker’s objective of course is much different from secular human education. The disciple-maker is endeavoring to create fellow disciples who are followers of Jesus that worship and love Him. However, when it comes to making disciples it is important to establish what the content and curriculum is in their pedagogy. The content is the Holy Word of God, the Bible. The content encompasses everything that disciples will be taught.
The big picture here of spiritual pedagogy is like a container and the contents of the container are everything that is fed to a disciple’s mind, but the disciple cannot receive it all at once. Therefore, you take small portions out of the container at a time and feed it the disciple, which is the curriculum (a lesson). Once the container is empty, the basics should have been fed to the disciple and he/she is strong enough to begin serving Christ. However, feeding on the Word of God is not over, the disciple now simply refills his container, but this time is not milk or soft food, it is the meat (the deeper parts of the faith and scripture).
The principles to be observed in a curriculum plan will be, first, the biblical messages chosen that exemplify the Bible. The content of the curriculum plan to be employed in the ministry venue where this writer serves will be strictly Bible-based. It will control the curriculum because in a church setting the whole objective of education is making well-grounded disciples who worship and love Jesus. The desire of the Lord in Christian education is not that we create intelligent believers, but intimate believers who are in a deep relationship with their Lord Jesus