It’s a (common) slippery slope: A person makes the decision to become a follower of Christ, so we assume they will start living the life of a disciple.
“Well, that was easy,” we think contentedly.
But a decision and discipleship aren’t mutually inclusive. Larry Osborne’s eBook Mission Creep puts an incredibly fine point on the very nebulous – and very common – misguided shift in focus churches have made from making disciples to simply getting decisions.