Journal Didaskalia
Vol 4 No 1: Journal Didaskalia - April 2021

Barriers To Discipleship In The Mandarin-Based Churches

Thio Donald Sugiarto (Sekolah Tinggi Teologi Injili Indonesia Surabaya)



Article Info

Publish Date
15 Apr 2021

Abstract

Discipleship today has again become a principal concern, was greeted with positive and implemented practically in the Lord's church, including the church-based mandarin which will be the object of research journal. However the fact is, after going through a preliminary study in the form of informal conversations with some of the Servants of the Lord and of the Assembly representing some church-based mandarin, the authors noticed that even though discipleship approved by a majority of the Servant of the Lord as an important thing that must be done, however there are still many of the church who have not done it in a concrete way in real life. Seminar after seminar and training for the sake of training has been held, in great demand and was followed by thousands of people from dozens of even hundreds of church, however only a handful of the church has been run in real time and sustainable. Considering the importance of discipleship which is the great mission of Jesus, not just an option or optional, even though there are many aspects that can be examined in the subject of discipleship, the authors will focus his research on the obstacles that may arise in the implementation of discipleship practically in the church, in particular that based on mandarin. Therefore, the authors wanted to examine further, the first about the essence of discipleship itself, and continued with research on the constraints, obstacles and challenges that make this discipleship can't be implemented in churches, in particular that based mandarin where the author to worship and serve.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

didaskalia

Publisher

Subject

Religion

Description

Journal Didaskalia published by STTII Surabaya as a means of developing evangelical values in Christian Religious Education by focusing on spiritual, knowledge and teaching skills of Christian education. Scientific work using educational and general study using Bible, field research and analysis ...