Part III of Distinctivies and Objectives

Through the ministries of preaching, adult and children’s education, small Bible Studies, various media and the encouragement of direct involvement in community ministries the leadership of Mount Rose Evangelical Free Church is trying to teach practical Christian responsibility in doctrine as well as in the daily outworking and application of our faith.

            Leaders are made, not born.  We believe that education should have as a direct result not only a changed life (as a person studies and applies God’s Word to their hearts and minds) but also should lead that person to desire to teach others likewise in the faith.  This process is called discipleship.

            Discipleship is literally the very process by which disciples are anchored in the faith and matured into leaders.  It is learning from example rather than from formula.  It is an important part of the believer’s experience which illustrates that Christianity is not merely devotion to a set of creeds or cold ethical propositions but a life to be lived, worked out and exemplified among people.

            Discipleship as provides a valuable opportunity for reciprocal relationships, mutual responsibility and maturing for both parties in the relationship.  Ephesians chapter 4 brings out the idea that the Body of Christ is a family:  one purpose, bonded together as a community of believers, committed to one another, “for the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for it serves as such a vital source of interpersonal accountability and growth, we see discipleship as an integral part of the Christian experience. 

 

Therefore as you have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, having been firmly rooted and now being built up in Him and established in your faith, just as you were instructed, and overflowing with gratitude. (Colossians 2:6-7)

 

And He gave some as apostles, and some as prophets, and some as evangelists, and some as pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the work of service, to the building up of the body of Christ; (Ephesians 4:11-12)

 

The things which you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses, entrust these to faithful men who will be able to teach others also. (2 Timothy 2:2)

 

Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age. (Matthew 28:19-20)

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