How does one become a janitor?

 

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In the movie the breakfast club Tough guy John Bender asks the janitor carl “Carl, how does one become a janitor… Carl reply’s “oh you want to be a janitor… no no I just want to know how one becomes a janitor… you see Andrew here has an interest in the custodial arts…

Well Carl schools them with his answer - but honestly Bender was on to something…

 

Carl the janitor in real life went to that high school. 

 

So Bender has a question for you all today. How does one become a disciple of Jesus?

 

Men if you do not have a planned spiritual growth path in place then you are not growing. If you are not growing you are not leading and if you are not leading then you are following when you are following you are at the mercy of whomever is leading.  Garth Heckman 

 

Here is how you change your immediate mindset… lets say you have been on autopilot and you just kind of have been coasting… No real plan.

All one needs to do is look at what you have learned along the way. How has God still used your life to teach you things to do and things to not do. Then ask yourself how you wish you would have been prepared for life up to this point. 

NOW… devise a plan. How do you prepare… when will you read, how long, what will you read, when will you pray, how long will you pray, How will you remember what you read, who will you share it with. Who will you be accountable to? 

 

Then as soon as you start this plan ask God to show you the benefit. Some may call it an easy win, or an easy A. It is simply a way the Holy Spirit can encourage you to move forward in your life and begin to see how it feels to be discipled.

 

I have a friend and her big starting move after pushing into her discipleship plan was seemingly simple to me and maybe you, but it was a huge step to her. She was riding home from work on the bus, she knew most of the people because so many rode the same bus home on the same route… as she got up to get off she stopped and thought this is it… Im doing it. She turned to the people on the bus and said have a great night and Jesus loves you… and she jumped off the bus as fast as she could. The next morning she got on the bus and a woman told her how much that meant to her last night and she really needed to hear it. Another man came up and told her his son has been dealing with some issues and he was feeling like God had forgotten him… and said when you told us last night that Jesus loved - well it was like a light went on and God stirred my heart.

LISTEN that might seem like nothing to you, or maybe you are where she is at, the point is it was a simple win in the middle of her quest to disciple herself.