Discipleship

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They don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.

You're trying to win an argument with an unbeliever thinking that if you can just prove evolution is false they'll just give up atheism and get saved when what you really need is a word of Knowledge about why they're mad at God and have decided not to believe in Him.

Luke 4:36 ESV

And they were all amazed and said to one another, “What is this word? For with authority and power he commands the unclean spirits, and they come out!”

Acts 1:8 ESV

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”

Power to witness.

1 Corinthians 2:4–5 ESV

and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, so that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.

1 Thessalonians 1:5 ESV

because our gospel came to you not only in word, but also in power and in the Holy Spirit and with full conviction. You know what kind of men we proved to be among you for your sake.

Matthew 28:19 ESV

Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

Wrong evangelism- Its not just saying magic words, do you believe in your heart, confess is not used

Everything worthwhile is uphill. You can't have Uphill hopes and dreams and downhill habits.

Every day is what messes people up.

Seed reproduces after its own kind

A disciple is a disciple maker

Genesis 1:11–12 ESV

And God said, “Let the earth sprout vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind, on the earth.” And it was so. The earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed according to their own kinds, and trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.

Matthew 23:15 ESV

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel across sea and land to make a single proselyte, and when he becomes a proselyte, you make him twice as much a child of hell as yourselves.

Luke 6:40 ESV

A disciple is not above his teacher, but everyone when he is fully trained will be like his teacher.

Separating salvation from discipleship has resulted in the crisis of the church. Getting someone to say a prayer and then abandoning them should be the exception and not the norm. It would be like meeting a long-lost brother or sister for the first time and never contacting them again. Having a baby, throwing it in the corner then saying lets go have another one! Because its fun to make babies, but raising them isn't as much fun...

Not converts but disciples

Simply added Jesus to your life not a new creation, not reborn or born again

Would you say our church is characterized by disciple making?

Programs

Or the mission of our lives

Does it define us

I do good things for the same reason I do bad things, it makes me feel good. So I have to make sure that I'm not just doing what I feel like, and not just doing what I think I have to. But that I am loving people

1 Corinthians 13:1–3 ESV

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.

Galatians 6:1–2 ESV

Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted. Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

If you think no one else has it as bad as you then you need to expand your circle

If you are the smartest person you know you need to expand your circle

Sick need a physician

Matthew 9:10–13 ESV

And as Jesus reclined at table in the house, behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and were reclining with Jesus and his disciples. And when the Pharisees saw this, they said to his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?” But when he heard it, he said, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. Go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice.’ For I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.”

2 Corinthians 3:4–6 ESV

Such is the confidence that we have through Christ toward God. Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us, but our sufficiency is from God, who has made us sufficient to be ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

They don't care how much you know until they know how much you care. You're trying to win an argument with an unbeliever thinking that if you can just prove evolution is false they'll just give up atheism and get saved when what you really need is a word of Knowledge about why they're mad at God and have decided not to believe in Him.

Acts 8:26–31 ESV

Now an angel of the Lord said to Philip, “Rise and go toward the south to the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.” This is a desert place. And he rose and went. And there was an Ethiopian, a eunuch, a court official of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who was in charge of all her treasure. He had come to Jerusalem to worship and was returning, seated in his chariot, and he was reading the prophet Isaiah. And the Spirit said to Philip, “Go over and join this chariot.” So Philip ran to him and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet and asked, “Do you understand what you are reading?” And he said, “How can I, unless someone guides me?” And he invited Philip to come up and sit with him.