Third, discipleship growth can be achieved like a mountain climber:
John Mark’s spiritual growth may have begun in those 12 months after returning home. He realized that while:
A failed worker doesn’t stop the Kingdom from going on with other workers. Mark succeeded as a companion of Barnabas in Cyprus. For, after that, his spiritual growth continued as a companion of the apostle Peter I Peter 5:13. After that, it continued as he served on the apostle Paul’s support staff during his first imprisonment Colossians 4:10, Philemon 24. And with his arrest the second time, Paul so valued Mark that he sent for him II Timothy 4:11. Serving successfully as Christ’s emissary after that he experienced arrest as a Christian, with eventual release Hebrews 13:23. His journey—maybe one he could never have anticipated in his days of reckless enthusiasm—continued through failure issuing in success. His legacy suggests that discipleship should be built on terraces:
Christians need spiritual rest times:
Then, if we fall, we’ll fall only to the lower terrace, NOT DOWN into oblivion! Fourth, FAIL, as in failure, can be a stepping stone to success if we:
NEVER GIVE UP! Then sat down. Walked again to the microphone for another NEVER GIVE UP! After a third time, with the same charge, he sat for good! NEVER GIVE UP! Unless we try again, failure will be a stumbling block. In discipleship, whatever we have achieved, stair-stepping our spiritual growth will provide the best solution to persevering maturity. It will also make MORE PROGRESS than we ever thought possible by retaining in quiet times what we learned in everyday action in Christ’s cause. Fini
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