“Help People Know God”
Reaching the Lost
Creating Worshippers
Developing Disciples
Building the Family
Activating Difference Makers
Developing Disciples
Matthew 28:19-20 Go and make disciples of all the nations, ethnos = people groups or ethnic groups.
1. To be a disciple I must follow Jesus.
John 12:26 If you want to be my disciple, follow me and you will go where I am going. And if you truly follow me as my disciple, the Father will shower his favor upon your life.
Following Jesus is a choice.
You’re as close to God as you choose to be.
2. To be a disciple I must love Jesus supremely.
Luke 14:26 You cannot be my disciple, unless you love me more than you love your father and mother, your wife and children, and your brothers and sisters. You cannot follow me unless you love me more than you love your own life.
Mark 12:29 The most important command is this: you must love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.”
3. To be a disciple I must love other disciples.
John 13:35 If you have love for one another, then everybody will know that you are my disciple.
1 Timothy 3:15 This family is the church of the living God.
The church is the family of God and the church is not a building or a location, it’s a people!
Ephesians 5:25 Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her. Jesus died for the church.
You can’t really follow Jesus and not love the church.
1 John 4:20 “If someone says I love God but hates a Christian brother or sister, that person is a liar. For if we don’t love people we can see, how can we love God whom we have not seen?”
Discipleship takes place in community.
John 13:35 If you have love for one another, then everybody will know that you are my disciple.”
1 John 3:16 This is how we know what love is Jesus Christ laid down his life for us and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
4. To be a disciple I must do what Jesus tells me.
John 8:31 If you continue to obey my teaching, you are truly my disciple. Then you will know the truth and the truth will set you free. I only believe the part of the Bible I do.
Logos - the sayings of God, the moral precepts given by God, the word of God.
5. To be a disciple I must serve others like Jesus.
Luke 14:27 Anyone who does not carry his cross and follow me cannot be my disciple.
He died to self to serve others.
If you’re not willing to die to self and serve others, you’re not truly a disciple.
6. To be a disciple I must purpose to grow and produce fruit that glorifies God.
John 15:8 This is to My Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, proving yourselves to be My disciples.
The fruit of your life proves that you are a disciple.
Sunlight
Water
Air
Soil
If you want to grow and produce MUCH fruit you have to purpose to Grow.
7. To be a disciple I must pass on the Good News of Jesus.
Mathew 4:20 Jesus called out, ‘Come! Be my disciple. And I will show you how to fish for people,’ and they left their nets at once and went with him.