The Skill of Elimination – removing the things from your life that are negatively affecting your spiritual growth.
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Now back to the skill of elimination.
Continuing with the idea of the last few posts on discipleship, I want to remind you that Discipleship & Disciple-Making are key commands of Jesus.
You know that the 2 Greatest Commandments are:
1. Love God with all you have, and
2. Love others as yourself.
The way we are to accomplish these 2 commands is through obedience to the Great Commission, which Jesus stated as: “Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I commanded you.”
Therefore, if this is Jesus’ Commission to us, then we each need to have an answer for how we are obeying it. We should be able to answer these two questions:
Who is discipling me? and
Who am I discipling?
Who is intentionally helping you to grow in love and obedience to Jesus?
Who are you intentionally helping to do the same?
In Robby Gallaty’s book, Rediscovering Discipleship, he shares a quote from Antoine de Saint-Exupéry:
“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”
Gallaty goes on to say that this kind of evaluation is very difficult because it removes what you want and reveals what God wants. And we know that God wants us to be discipled and be discipling others. Therefore, this means that some of us may need to think seriously about eliminating some activities in our lives so that we can experience the very best that Jesus wants for us.
We need to develop the skill of elimination and continually ask ourselves:
What do I need to eliminate from my life to be obedient to Jesus in the area of being discipled and being a disciple-maker?
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2 replies on “Elimination: The Skill of Eliminating Distractions is Important”
If you eliminate you must replace or there will be a gap. To just stop doing the things that get in the way of your relationship with God is useless unless you replace it with things that draw you closer to Him. Just a thought!
Good thought. Out with the bad, in with the good!