Discipleship

Who Was Jesus?

Matthew 4:19 (NASB 2020)

And He said to them, “Follow Me, and I will make you fishers of people.”

Matthew 9:9 (NIV)

As Jesus went on from there, he saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax collector’s booth. “Follow me,” he told him, and Matthew got up and followed him.

Matthew 19:21 (NIV)

Jesus answered, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.”

Be With Jesus

Become Like Jesus

Do what Jesus did

Be with Jesus

John 15:4–5 (NIV)

Remain in me, as I also remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me. “I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.

“Because what you give your attention to is the person you become. Put another way: the mind is the portal to the soul, and what you fill your mind with will shape the trajectory of your character. In the end, your life is no more than the sum of what you gave your attention to. That bodes well for those apprentices of Jesus who give the bulk of their attention to him and to all that is good, beautiful, and true in his world. But not for those who give their attention to the 24-7 news cycle of outrage and anxiety and emotion-charged drama or the nonstop feed of celebrity gossip, titillation, and cultural drivel.” -John Mark Comer

Become like Jesus

We are all becoming someone, the question is who are we becoming

Romans 12:2 (NASB 2020)

And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.

Who are you going to be in 5 years? 10?

Practice: An activity we can do in order to open us to what we cannot.

Grace is opposed to earning, not effort. - Dallas Willard

Do what Jesus did.

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