Before moving to Scotland to do Connect (the Navigators internship programme), I didn’t have much experience doing discipleship intentionally. I had taught people things and shared my life with friends. I just hadn’t met with someone with the intention of making disciples.
I was a children’s nurse and then a health visitor before having two children of my own. When my youngest was a baby, he nearly died and that made me think: How do people cope when their child has died?
The concept was introduced to me roughly 4 years ago now and has influenced most of my life decisions ever since… Let’s rewind to early 2020 (pre-pandemic). I was 6 months into my Midwifery degree and about to become the small group co-ordinator for my university’s Christian Union.
Our culture is experiencing an authenticity crisis. There is a deep hunger for genuine relationships, a thirst to be truly oneself. But ‘authentic’ has become marketing speak, wielded by influencers, brands and apps desperate to gain the trust of Gen Z and Gen Alpha.
Coming alongside people over the past 10 years or so, I have often felt frustrated, confused and overwhelmed as I encounter the brokenness of the world, of people and of myself. Sometimes things can feel too big for me, too complicated, too messy.
My first experience of one-to-one discipleship was organised for me. The person I was paired with was passionate about living by the word of God, but our personalities clashed.
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