Heavenly Father, make my church a disciple–making church. Build this Body of Christ until we all attain to the unity of the faith, growing in the knowledge of your Son and maturing to the full measure of Christ–likeness. That the world may know you have sent us.
In Jesus’ name. Amen.
Full Prayer
Please pray aloud:
Heavenly Father, make my church a disciple–making church.
Your Son calls us to follow him and be his disciples. To find freedom in his burden, joy in his service, and life in his name. But his call to be his disciple also comes with a harsh appeal and high standard—To deny ourselves. To daily take up our cross and die. To renounce all things. And to share in his sufferings.
These are hard teachings, God, and we hesitate and tremble at their weight. So remind our spirits, Lord, that he does not ask us to do what he has not first done—He first denied himself, he first took up the cross, he first renounced all things to suffer, and all this for your glory. How could he lead us to do otherwise? Who are we to be any different than the teacher we follow?
Make my church a disciple–making church, Lord.
I pray the words of the Apostle Paul and ask that you would build this Body of Christ until we all attain to the unity of the faith, growing in the knowledge of your Son and maturing to the full measure of Christ–likeness. That we may no longer be like children, who are tossed about by the waves and wind of every doctrine, human cunning, and deceitful schemes.Rather, speaking the truth in love, help us to grow up in every way to be like the head of the body, Christ himself! Because it is in him whom the whole body is joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, works together, grows, and builds itself up in love.
So improve the systems of discipleship at my church, God. Make us diligent to study as disciples. Make us eager for application as disciples. Make us imitators of Christ. That the world may know you have sent us.
In Jesus’ name. Amen.
…until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ. Ephesians 4:13
