In Neil Cole's Organic Church, Cole stresses the importance of constantly bringing up the next generation of the church leaders. His approach though is a little different than a lot of other ideas I have heard. He encourages leaders to push brand spanking new Christians into the battle to learn quickly what it means to stand up for your faith. A lot of the time we talk about the need to study the Bible and be discipled after someone is saved and then maybe after a year of doing that, you can go out and share and defend your faith to the world. Cole argues (and I have to agree with him here) that the best way to learn how to be a Christian is to be immediately thrown into situations where you have to stand up for your faith. This grounds you in your faith, and gives you a foundation, where you cannot separate faith from action.
I know it can be scary letting someone loose who has minimal knowledge of the word, and only a few days ago was sinning up a storm, but we are in a battle against a very powerful enemy and not only can we not afford to waste time training new believers, but the best training for battle is actually fighting in the battle. We need to unleash new passionate Christians on this world and stand back and watch as they win the world over for Christ. Don’t worry about them, they have the ultimate helper inside them (The Holy Spirit!).
