How Daws Told It
Theme of the Week: Faith Handoff
Dawson Trotman
Tuesday, May 3, 2005
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Key Bible Verse: Come, be my disciples, and I will show you how to fish for people! (Matthew 4:19). Bonus Reading: John 1:40-42;Matthew 4:18-22
Twenty-three years ago I took a born-again sailor and spent time with him, showing him how to reproduce spiritually after his kind. It took lots of time. I taught him how to study God's Word and how to fill the quiver of his heart with the arrows of God's Word, so that the Spirit of God could lift an arrow from his heart, place it to the bow of his lips, and pierce a heart for Christ.
He found a number of men on his ship who'd go to church with him, but none would go all out for the Lord. He came to me after a month of this and said, "Dawson, I can't get any of these guys to get down to business."
"Listen," I told him, "You can't have two until you have one. Ask God to give you one man after your own heart."
He began to pray. One day he came to me and said, "I think I've found him." He worked with this new believer, and those two fellows began to grow and spiritually reproduce. On that ship 125 men found the Savior before it was sunk at Pearl Harbor. Men off that first battleship are in four continents as missionaries today. It was necessary to make a start, however. The devil's trick is to stop anything like this before it gets started.
—Dawson Trotman in Born to Reproduce
My Response: I'll ask God to give me one man to disciple.
Thought to Apply: [Men] are not soul winners because of what they know, but because of Who they know, how well they know Him, and how much they long for others to know Him.—DAWSON TROTMAN
Adapted from Born to Reproduce (NavPress, 1997) by permission.
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