This Fall we welcomed a new class of 24 students. 24 is a small class size for us, and having a small class comes with challenges and blessings. One of those blessings is the opportunity to get to know our students better than we ever can with a larger class: as we eat together, work together, worship together, and learn together, we grow (together!) as a body of believers who share the same goals and the same way of life.
It strikes me that this is quintessential discipleship; not that one man stands in front of a group of people to lecture, as beneficial as that can be, but that a group of believers with a common vision, young and old and in-between, share their life together so that those who are younger are brought up and apprenticed in the faith, and in the mission that Christ has given us in the world. And that’s what we’re trying to do: not to make disciples of Miracle Mountain Ranch or the School of Discipleship, but to make disciples of Jesus Christ, who will go out from their year here to make more disciples.
So pray for us, that we will be wise and gracious as we walk alongside these young people; and pray for our students, that they will embrace all that this program has to offer, and that they will grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
– Daniel Stanley
