AGITATOR

To effectuate His Plan of reconciliation and transformation God sends his people into the World to make disciples who will learn of Christ, imitate Christ, and follow Christ in their daily lives. It is through the making of disciples that God has chosen to build his church and return his people to full relationship with Him.

Because He is all powerful, God could have chosen to transform us into slaves to righteousness by divine edict rather than through discipleship. But he did not. And because His ways are not our ways, we need not concern ourselves with that decision. We need only to focus on putting His plan into action through Agitation.

To agitate is to stir into action. Picture the agitator in a washing machine—the finned spindle that twists back and forth to scrub the dirt from clothes, transforming them into clean garments ready for wear. It is the same of agitation in the making of disciples. The Agitator stirs men into the action necessary for their transformation into learners, imitators, and followers of Christ.

There are four fins on the agitator of discipleship: embody, engage, explain, and encourage. By twisting them back and forth in the life of a seeker, the Agitator leads him into a new life—one that is eternal and surrendered to God—so that the seeker himself becomes an Agitator in the lives of other men.