Genesis 3:9 And the Lord God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?

Think closely on this, God knows all things, therefor when He called out to Adam it was not for His information, it was to make Adam think. Here yet again is another simple example from walk 1807. When asked during a talk, “Where are you?” the most common response was a blank stare. Each man did an instant inventory of himself and had to search deep for a right answer.

I watched as man after man confessed that they were not where they thought they should be in their walk with Christ. While I praise God for the awakening within their souls for a thirst for that water, I was also at the same time saddened by the burden of the thought that they thought less of themselves than what they should. They were exactly where God needed them at the moment that God needed them to hear what God had to say to them. They were positioned perfectly.

So often we look around us and see men that have been on their walk longer and have more experience, more wisdom, more scriptural knowledge and while that is true, they miss out on the most important issue about their own walk. They are in Christ. As men we tend to look at position as a vantage point. When we look at others as having an advantage over us, then we start placing emotional issue where they do not belong. Envy and strife are born out of that vision of self.

Look at the love in the eyes of a new mother as she holds that child for the first time since receiving that child into this world. Up until that moment that child was as close as it will ever be to the mother, attached, part of her, life in her. Why can’t we see ourselves as in Christ the same way, that we will never be any closer to Christ than when we are IN CHRIST?

When we look at what we do as being more important than where we are, we lose that sense of closeness.

Ephesians 1:22-23 And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church, Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.

During walk 1807 a resounding theme kept appearing, “I was just playing at church.”

We didn’t go into detail during the walk about what that meant, and the focus was that they were now on board. Praise God for that. This is one important aspect of the Emmaus experience, getting honest with yourself. Yet the question remains, why were they “playing church”?

From my viewpoint, mind you MY viewpoint, it comes down to a failure within mainstream churches to operate in discipleship. It isn’t taught, it isn’t followed and perhaps that is because it isn’t understood. In most cases it is assumed that once a believer says the sinner’s prayer they belong to Jesus and under His head.

Just because a man confesses Christ at the age of 40 does not change the fact that he has become a babe in Christ, who doesn’t know how to feed himself, talk, understand, walk or defend himself. Yet most of the churches leave these babes alone with their new worst enemy, Satan.

But if you take that same new born and set them up with a discipleship program which will examine them for every aspect of personal growth and keep with them during the process, you get a better result. You train up a disciple to disciple others. In this the main church has failed new believers.

Do all babes stay babes? No, and the assumption is that if they do not grow, they have not done the work. I say we have failed them.

Matthew 28:20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you:

All things; do you think perhaps we left out a few?