John chapter 20 verse 25 informs us that Jesus taught a lot more than what was captured and recorded in our bibles. Nevertheless, there are enough of his words recorded that the depth and breadth cannot be exhausted in a lifetime of study. For the next few weeks I would like to write about some of the major things Jesus taught and how they apply to us as disciple-makers.

Willy, (not his real name) was an addict who lived in Thailand when we pastored there. A man in our church befriended Willy and over the course of more than one year of sharing the Gospel with Willy he decided to become a Jesus follower. The man who befriended Willy was not available to baptize him so I had the pleasure of being called in to perform the baptism. Willy was a bit shy but he sincerely wanted to follow Jesus. He asked that we not do the baptism at the church but rather in the Andaman Sea and that we not invite a lot of people. While church people were not invited it was impossible to avoid the attention of the sun bathers especially on the day we chose for the event.