As I have thought about one of the primary tasks of our ministry, I think that it is connecting people to Jesus. Not just passing on information, teaching some skill or other, playing, running people through a set of ministry programs so they have been discipled, rather setting an atmosphere where students can hear, see, meet with Jesus.

We might like to think ( certainly only in moments of pride) we can transform individuals with our vast ministry skill, but O how wrong we are. Jesus transforms people from the inside out and our ministry is only truly successful when students are connected with Jesus so that He is changing them from the inside out. Discipleship is helping people become apprenticed to Jesus in His school (to borrow from Dallas Willard).

So when we say that we are discipling students, first we mean that we are doing all we can to introduce them to close, intimate relationship with Jesus.