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Introduction
Last week we started a spiritual journey together.
A journey that will draw us close to the heart of God and cause God to draw close to us.
The First step on this journey is a better understanding of why we do what we do at Reliant through a new series call “DNA.”
God didn’t lay on my heart to start a church just to be another Church on Hiram Sudie.
But to establish a people that understand the heart and mission of God to this community and world that are lost and don’t even know it.
To restore: Faith, Hope, and Love through the power of the gospel.
The Mission of Reliant is simple
“Producing Jesus followers of faith that expand God’s kingdom.”
We are unpacking the 5 core values of the Church that enable us to accomplish this goal.
Bible Believers
Disciple Makers
God Pleasers
Community Engagers
Kingdom Builders
Last week we learned that a Bible Believer is one who submits to the authority of the Bible for all life and practice; not one that simply knows the Bible.
Today we will discuss how
a Disciple Maker invests the gospel in faithful men and women that will invest its power in others.
To do this we will answer 4 questions about Discipleship:
What is the principle of discipleship?
What is the purpose for discipleship?
What is the pattern of discipleship?
What is the pathway of discipleship?
Before we dive heavy into this subject I want you to take a spiritual inventory of your life for a moments.
When you bring discipleship down to its most elementary form your life, your very existence is either drawing people to God or scattering them from God. Jesus said in .
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If you are a born again believer here this morning the question is simple are you gathering or are you scattering?
If you have come here this morning seeking to know God I pray that we, through the power of God’s Spirit would draw you closer to God.
I want to spend just a few moments on the principle of discipleship as the concept is not hard to understand.
What is the Principle of Discipleship?
God always works off his principle of multiplication.
In all living things God has placed a seed.
The seed is always passed on to the reproduced seed causing a multiplication effect.
God has placed a seed in us.
New life can come from the seed inside us.
Gen 1:
God’s command to us has always been to multiply.
Gen 1:28
God has placed a seed in us.
New life can come from the seed inside us.
God has placed a seed in us.
God has given us the power to procreate through our seed.
From two people that seed has produced 7.5 billon people currently living on the face of the planet (not counting the number that have died).
From two people that seed has produced 7.5 billon people currently living on the face of the planet (not counting the number that have died).
In 1900 there were 1.6 billon people which means through multiplication the population has grown by 6x the amount in just 120 years.
Multiplication is a powerful tool for growth and expansion.
A corrupted seed can only produce corrupted fruit.
Adam and Eve were to multiply the divine nature of God with the power of procreation, but corrupted their nature through disobeying God.
They could only produce death after the fall.
What if I told you there was another seed?
A seed that produces life and not death.
There is a seed that can reproduce life instead of death.
Every person that is reborn in the family of God is entrusted with this life giving seed.
Through the seed of the living word of God we can reproduce sons of God to as many as will receive it.
Through multiplication we can do more for the Kingdom of God.
This is the art of making disciples or what we sometimes call discipleship.
This is different than a convert.
A convert would be one that receives the seed of God’s word, but never reproduces that seed in others.
A convert that is not gathering to Christ is scattering from Christ.
The question now is what are we multiplying: good seed of God’s Word (Bible Believers) or corrupted seed of the world?
Now that we have the principles and facts out of the way lets talk about the heart of Discipleship.
What is the Purpose of Discipleship?
Discipleship is a very simple two part process that was modeled for us by Jesus.
Luke 19:1
To Seek and Save the Lost.
Every person in this world starts out lost and far from God.
Lostness is not determined by your current condition or way of life.
You might be the most conservative person or you might be the most liberal.
Neither one of those positions gets you any closer to God.
Lostness is not determined by your current world view.
What you think about God or even if you struggle to believe in God.
Lostness is the condition of every person that comes into the world.
Jesus didn’t come to condemn people but to seek out and radically save the lost.
Everybody wants to quote but what about .
John 3:18
Sharing the good news of Jesus is the first step of discipleship.
Receiving the good news is your beginning of discipleship.
You can’t make disciples without evangelism.
To Heal the Brokenhearted.
When Jesus went into the temple to begin his public ministry to the world he quoted a prophesy from that would set the tone for not only his ministry but for ours as well.
Luke 4:
“Discipleship is the application of the gospel to heal the brokenhearted and strengthen the believer.”
Every person begins this journey with the Lord in a state of brokenness.
“A good mentor is able to apply the Word of God like a healing salve to the brokenness of a persons heart and life.
This is the power of the Gospel.”
Discipleship is not a set of lessons or exercises to fill your head with knowledge, but a systematic healing of the soul that God has so graciously redeemed.
When we make discipleship information based it loses it healing power.
Discipleship must be Holy Spirit led as He and He alone and heal the broken heart.
To Embrase Joy in the midst of Sorrow.
Pass out the Spiritual Growth Sheet
What is the pattern of Discipleship?
Over the years I have observed the working of the Holy Spirit as he leads people into their new relationship with God.
Here is the reoccurring pattern that I see:
Love
Acceptance
Recovery
Purpose
Instruction
Trials and Testings
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