Life-On-Life Discipleship
In college, I longed for a mentor. I listened to my friends discuss their relationships with their mentors—they were supportive, they listened, they taught them about the Bible, they gave them advice, and they invited them on coffee dates. I watched them walk together on campus or sit together in the local coffee shops. My heart would stretch out of my chest towards them, aching for what they had.
But that wasn’t what God provided. Rather, a few years later, God plunked me in a rural community next to a parsonage where I became a “mommy’s helper.”
When my pastor’s wife delivered her twins, they hired me to help her around the home. I walked through snow and sunshine each morning for almost a year to do simple tasks like cleaning floors, folding laundry, burping babies, and chopping vegetables. What I learned in this ordinary setting could never be replaced with coffee dates and Bible studies. I learned with my hands and feet what it looked like be a mother, wife, and homekeeper to the glory of God.
Discipleship doesn’t only take place in quiet rooms with books, Bibles, and coffee—it also takes place in the bustling homes of our fellow brothers and sisters in Christ.
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