Discipling People into God's Presence

Ezra 7:1-28

From the very beginning, the Bible makes it clear that God loves to be relationally connected to his people. We see examples of this in the OT with believers like Adam, Enoch, Moses and David. In the NT, we see God’s desire for relational connectedness in Jesus’ ministry. Jesus gathered disciples so they could be “with him.” After his resurrection, he promised to be “with us” to the end of the age. Even then, God’s desire is to be “with us” forever (Rev. 21). If this is God’s passion, how does a leader become the kind of person who disciples people into the presence of God? Ezra is an example of this kind of leader. We start with...