That “fail” started generations ago. Now that most of us have never been discipled ourselves, we’re too immature to go out and make disciples! I attended an evangelical college, have participated in various Bible studies over the years, belong to a church that takes the Bible very seriously, and hardly have met anyone who knows how to walk in the Spirit. My pastor was called by God to teach (he did the Jonah thing for many years, but God won in the end) but nobody else at my church knows what their Gift is, so there is nobody with discernment to help the rest of us figure it out — we’re all in the same boat. We want to reach out to the community, but with such little success because it is basically just well-intentioned human effort. I can’t point to a single time in my life when I have been able to accomplish something beyond my own abilities through God’s strength. I am sure there are multitudes of opportunities to make disciples that have passed right by because I never hear the Spirit’s promptings.

If more American Christians are like me than like you Dan, maybe there is a lack of people able to follow the command to make disciples, rather than a lack of people who desire to make disciples?

And normandie, you got it. Great post.