The Master’s Steps

One day while I was in master step class the Lord opened my eyes to see how this class is much like the church. If you aren’t familiar with gym lingo, master step is an aerobic class using a step bench with advanced choreography. Basically when you have mastered the most basic steps, you graduate to advanced steps that are built upon the basic steps with less time spent on the break down. In class, you have an instructor who stands in front of the entire class and calls out the steps while making the moves with you. No matter how good the instructor is occasionally they miscue or misstep. They may say the right step but actually do the wrong step or visa versa. This isn’t to their shame, but rather shows that even the best are still fallible. But even their mistakes should not throw off the advanced students who generally will have learned through repetition the routine well enough so that they can make the right step regardless of what they hear or see. The more advanced students, which usually are the regular attendees generally, stand at the front of the class which allows the new attendees someone else to follow.As a help, the classes are done facing a mirror so you can see yourself and make sure you are doing exactly what you are supposed to be doing.

As a believer, we are called to the Master’s step class which is church where we learn to follow Jesus’ choreography which is laid out in the Word. 1 Peter 2:21 says, “To this you were called, because Christ suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in his steps.” It is Jesus who has appointed pastors (Ephesians 4:11-12) as instructors who will through repetition teach us how to “keep in step with the Spirit” (Galatians 5:25). Like all men, they are not perfect but their goal is to teach us the Word so that we can stay in step with the Master. Like the class, the church should have the regular attendees who are mature enough in the faith and know the Master’s steps so that the new believers have examples to follow. As Paul said in 1 Corinthian 11:1 “Follow my example, as I follow the example of Christ.” This is how we make disciples!(Matt 28:19) Just like the mirrors in the classroom, the Word is like a mirror (James 1:22-25) that we look into to check our own steps to see if we are doing the Master’s Steps.

So I ask are you a part of the Master’s step class? Do you know the elementary truths of God’s word so that you can be teachers or are you stuck in the basic steps? (Hebrews 5:11-12) We must become mature so that as the rest of Ephesians 4:14-16 says, "Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of men in their deceitful scheming. Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into him who is the Head, that is, Christ. From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work."

Like Job, I want to be able to say, “My feet have closely followed his steps; I have kept to his way without turning aside.” (Job 23:11)

A member of the Master’s Step class,
Mandy Wakefield

On a side note: If you aren’t familiar with church lingo…get involved in a church!!!)

(BTW: I hope that words "Jesus' choreography did not bring to mind Jesus in a leotard! Although I'm certain he was the originator of "Spirit fingers" ba-boom-cha)