New Hope Mission

What Discipleship is...

1. Decision

Change ourselves vs. wanting everyone & everything else to change

No longer status quo

Choice | Can’t substitute our daily personal decision for Jesus for church attendance; Can’t substitute our daily task of being the church for our personal decision for Jesus.

What Discipleship is not...

1. Indifferent

Oh well… What will be, will be; HoHum faith

(NLT)

13 “You can enter God’s Kingdom only through the narrow gate. The highway to hell is broad, and its gate is wide for the many who choose that way.

14 But the gateway to life is very narrow and the road is difficult, and only a few ever find it.

What Discipleship is...

2. Disciplines

Focused on growth

Intentional

Self-sacrificing

What Discipleship is not...

2. Disregard

I’m good

Attendance anything

(NLT)

1 So get rid of all evil behavior. Be done with all deceit, hypocrisy, jealousy, and all unkind speech.

2 Like newborn babies, you must crave pure spiritual milk so that you will grow into a full experience of salvation. Cry out for this nourishment,

3 now that you have had a taste of the Lord’s kindness.

What Discipleship is...

3. Direction

Movement in the right direction

I have not arrived, but I press on

I don’t know what I could become

What Discipleship is not...

3. Destination

It’s not an “I have arrived attitude”

(NLT)

12 I don’t mean to say that I have already achieved these things or that I have already reached perfection. But I press on to possess that perfection for which Christ Jesus first possessed me.

13 No, dear brothers and sisters, I have not achieved it, but I focus on this one thing: Forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead,

14 I press on to reach the end of the race and receive the heavenly prize for which God, through Christ Jesus, is calling us.

What Discipleship is...

4. Community

One another | Community helps bring the word of God alive and make it real

What Discipleship is not...

4. Individual

I’ll do it my way

Lack of submission

(NLT)

1 On the day of Pentecost all the believers were meeting together in one place.

(NLT)

44 And all the believers met together in one place and shared everything they had.