St. Aidan's Anglican Church, Kansas City - Weekly Talks

Our Bishop, Stewart Ruch, Upper Midwest Diocese, speaks on making spiritual sons and daughters, after which he Confirmed 18 new members at St. Aidan's. I. The Disciple-making Design: 78.1-6 a. Incarnational Design: 1-5 i. The teaching of God—the Gospel—is designed as incarnational ii. In OT: Tent of meeting, ark of the covenant, stone tablets, parents, People of God iii. In NT: the Word became flesh and the Word is ministered by spiritual fathers (1 Cor 4) and spiritual mothers (2 Tim 1) iv. An Incarnational Gospel Incarnates Disciples b. Imitative Design: 5-6 i. The pedagogy of imitation is deeply Gospel ii. Dship is sonship and daughterhood iii. Over 10 references to imitation iv. 1 Cor 4—Paul says imitate me—so I am sending Timothy—so that you can imitate him as he imitates me v. VERY KEY leadership lesson here c. Three generations of imitation i. Focus on the second generation ii. Find, together, the third generation iii. Fight against false teaching for the fourth generation II. The Disciple-maki