We live in a day and age where discipleship is possible despite being thousands of kilometers apart. Hafi, Kevin, Stuart and Bob (not their real names) live in different cities in Afghanistan. Churches are outlawed there. In fact, Afghanistan is one of the top 10 countries in the world facing heaviest Christian persecution. These new believers all heard about Jesus through different means. They each read the Bible and accepted Jesus as their Lord on their own. There are no known Christian leaders actively working in that country under the Taliban rule.
These four new believers where like sheep without a shepherd, until they reached out online. Now, they are discipled weekly and study the Word together. They have finished studying the Gospel of Mark and are now studying the Book of Acts. Recently, over the last few months, they even had a chance to partake together on their first Holy Communion online.