In regards to discipleship, what ought to be our primary focus?

In this video, Rob Ventura explains what should be the focus of programs within churches today. He emphasizes that the goal of any program should not be to somehow "generate" more saved individuals, but rather to help existing Christians grow in their faith.

Discipleship, according to Ventura, is about making better Christians out of saved people. The goal is not to save people - that is God's work - but to guide them once they are saved. Many people, once they have accepted Christ, are left wondering what to do next, and that is where discipleship comes in. Through structured programs in the church, saved individuals can be guided and taught how to live as Christians.

Matthew 28:19 (NKJV): 'Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.'

I find it much going on in this whole matter, going on much in broad evangelical churches. Reformed churches typically will have some discipleship talks and conversations, but again, we trust in God's sovereignty. So am I against, you know, much of what goes on in the broader evangelical church? Probably. But that's not to say we need to react and say that we could never have any type of program in our church where we're going to have once a month, again in our case, and there's many ways to work this out, where you have some type of discipling going on in the Church, either by the pastor, myself in this case, and my fellow elder teaching those concepts from this book, or again other brothers teaching it in the Church.

So we want to make disciples and then disciples make other disciples, right? And again, they're making saved people into better Christians. That's really an excellent way to think about discipleship. They're saved. I'm not making you saved.

That I can't do. God does it. But once you're saved, you say, what do I do now as a Christian? Okay, let me help you. That's discipling.