Matthew 28:19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations….
Psalm 34:1 Come, my children listen to me; I will teach you…..
"Driving Mr. Yogi" by Harvey Araton is the story of Ron Guidry and his relationship with Yogi Berra during spring training. I was fascinated by the practice of disciple making in the majors. To be a great catcher you need to know how to call a game, motivate your pitchers, catch foul balls, block the plate, throw out base stealers and be the extension of the manager on the field.
When Yogi Berra was just a young catcher, Bill Dickey, who played for the Yankees for 19 years, came out of retirement to teach him how to be a catcher. He didn't tell him to read a book, or watch a movie; he was right on the field with him showing him the art of catching.
Yogi went on to become a Hall of Fame catcher himself and was invited by the Yankees to help train a young recruit named Jorge Posada. Here is how Araton puts it, "Now it was Berra's turn to pass along what Dickey had taught him. In a sense, he had also 'unretired' to take on the job of making Posada want to catch, of making him believe he could contribute behind the plate as he could while standing alongside it with a bat in his hands. That is what Dickey had done for Berra, and he was eternally grateful."
Yogi, with his 10 World Series Rings and three MVP's, did disciple Posada into a first-class catcher.
So, who are you training? This is not training to know facts, or hold a certain intellectual position, but how to live life. Disciple making is the very foundation of our movement.
May God give us the courage to invest our lives in the next generation.
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