Spencer Knight said for a long time, he’d wanted to be a music minister. But then when he was at Samford University in 1993, he had “an identity crisis.”
“I was working at a church as a music associate where I developed a great burden for people who would just come and hear the preaching that took place and then they left,” Knight said. “I really developed a burden that they were missing so much in their Christian walk — they’re missing so much discipleship, they’re missing out on so much joy that they could experience by only coming to hear the pastor preach.”
He didn’t know what to do next, so he called someone from his past — James Long, who had served as the minister of education at the church he had attended in middle school.
‘A lifetime of conversations’
“James not only answered the phone, he also decided to come over to Samford and meet with me and talk with me,” said Knight, who now serves as minister of discipleship at Hunter Street Baptist Church in Hoover. “God used James to explain to me what discipleship is, how the ministry of Sunday School is one of the greatest tools we have to equip and encourage others to not only grow in their discipleship but to make disciples.”
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This article was originally published at TheAlabamaBaptist.org.
