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Discipleship

Disciple

Disciple - (math t s) or μαθητής ē ēlearner/student/follower

Everyone is a disciple

Great joy. He greets me like an old friend. And looks after me. How I love him! Then he speaks. How small I am.

When he speaks, all resistance breaks down before the magical effect of his words. One can only be his friend or his enemy. He divides the hot from the cold. But luke-warmness he spits from his mouth.

Everyone is a disciple

Joseph Goebbels - Reich Minister of Propaganda On 1 May 1945, the day after Hitler had committed suicide with his new wife  Eva Braun, Goebbels and his wife  Magda  killed their six young children  by giving them poison (in the form of cyanide pills or capsules) in their sleep, then committed suicide themselves.

Discipleship

Disciple - (math t s) or μαθητής ē ēlearner/student/follower

Discipleship - the journey/process of following

Following Jesus

The more I know Him, the more I love Him, the more I love Him the more I obey Him, the more I obey Him the more I become like Him, the more I become like Him the more I know Him etc.

Contagious Discipleship

2 Timothy 2: 1-6 You then, my child, be strengthened by the grace that is in Christ Jesus, and what you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses entrust to faithful men who will be able to teach others also. Share in suffering as a good soldier of Christ Jesus. No soldier gets entangled in civilian pursuits, since his aim is to please the one who enlisted him. An athlete is not crowned unless he competes according to the rules. It is the hard-working farmer who ought to have the first share of the crops.

Contagious Discipleship

2 Timothy 2: 1-6 You then, my child, be strengthened by the grace that is in Christ Jesus, and what you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses entrust to faithful men who will be able to teach others also.

Share in suffering as a good soldier of Christ Jesus. No soldier gets entangled in civilian pursuits, since his aim is to please the one who enlisted him. An athlete is not crowned unless he competes according to the rules. It is the hard-working farmer who ought to have the first share of the crops.

Contagious Discipleship is personal.

Share in suffering as a good soldier of Christ Jesus. No soldier gets entangled in civilian pursuits, since his aim is to please the one who enlisted him. An athlete is not crowned unless he competes according to the rules. It is the hard-working farmer who ought to have the first share of the crops.

Contagious Discipleship

2 Timothy 2: 1-6 You then, my child, be strengthened by the grace that is in Christ Jesus, and what you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses entrust to faithful men who will be able to teach others also.

Contagious Discipleship is intentional.

2 Timothy 2: 1-6 You then, my child, be strengthened by the grace that is in Christ Jesus, and what you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses entrust to faithful men who will be able to teach others also.

•Schedule it

•Keep it simple

•What you have pass it on

Contagious Discipleship is relational.

2 Timothy 2: 1-6 You then, my child, be strengthened by the grace that is in Christ Jesus, and what you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses entrust to faithful men who will be able to teach others also.

•Let love be your motivation to disciple

We’re not alone

Philippians 2:12 Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, so now, not only as in my presence but much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling, 13 for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure.

We’re not alonePhilippians 2:12 Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, so now, not only as in my presence but much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling, 13 for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure.

OurWork

God’sWork

Disciple-ship

God took our discipleship personally.

Philippians 2:5 Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, 6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped,

God took our discipleship

intentionally. Philippians 2:5 Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, 6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. 8 And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.

God took our discipleship relationally.

John 1:12 But to all who did receive Him, who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God,

The Greatest Invention Ever

The Church

Ephesians 3:10 so that through the church the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly places.