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1 Corinthians chapter 4, verse 15.

For though you have countless guides in Christ, you do not have many fathers.

For I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel.

This is a pretty powerful image here when you think about it.

Paul talking to these Christians in Corinth and basically saying to them, he is their spiritual

father. Like they are his spiritual children. He even says right after this in verse 17, he says, I sent you Timothy,

my beloved and faithful child in the Lord. Like to think about spiritual children, being a spiritual

parent. It's a pretty powerful image, isn't it?

To think that God would use you or me

to lead someone to become a son

or daughter of his.

Does that not blow you away?

Let me say that one more time,

to think that God would use you

to lead someone else

to become a son or daughter of his.

What an awesome privilege.

What an awesome privilege. What an awesome opportunity. Don't we want to do this? Don't we want to lead people to be sons or daughters of God?

And then this is the whole picture of disciple making. We don't just lead someone to Christ and then leave them to figure it out on their own from there.

No, like we teach them to obey everything Christ is commanded, like a parent with a child. Like I think about us adopting our three of our children.

Like, when we brought them home from other countries, we didn't just set them out on

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