Queen's Road Cell

We first talked about "success" and whether we regarded ourselves as successful people. There was a general reluctance to call ourselves "successful". But Eugene made the excellent point that success would be achieved if we could hear the "Well done, good and faithful servant" of Christ at the end. We know that there are some aspects of our lives that are more successful than others, whether spiritual or secular. I shared that I thought success could be defined in terms of discipleship - in FFMC we have defined a disciple as " one who is in the process of becoming all that Christ has called him or her to be and do. There is a longing to follow Christ (Lk 14:27 ), know Him (Jn 10:14 ) and become increasingly like Him (Mt 10:25 , Lk 6:40 , 2 Cor 3:18 ). We are successful when we are faithful disciples. We do fail morally as well as in terms of not achieving task-oriented goals, although the distinction between these categories of failure can be blurre...