Stand Alone 5.16.21 Notes

Brief Outline

Intro/Welcome

Squeeze the GC to get as much juice as we can.

The very purpose of the church, it has the power to define your life.

along the way address some of the reasons we don’t make disciples

Pray

Great Commission

Main Verb — Make Disciples

Define Disciple (Matt 4:19)

Follows Jesus, transformed by Jesus, on the mission of Jesus.

GC 1st Half — Make Disciples

‘Go’ and ‘As you go’

Objection — we don’t have time.

Evangelize, Baptize & Integrate

GC 2nd Half — MatureDisciples

Teach them how to love

bjection — we don’t feel equipped.

We love by looking to the life of Jesus.

GC Results — Multiply Disciples

result of loving — sharing God’s love

How do we make disciples?

By being disciples.

following Jesus, being changed by him and committed to the mission.

Objection — we are fearful

Look to Jesus

Worship is the fuel / wavering is from fear

He has all the power

He is with us.

Application:

Go and make disciples.

Put Jesus first in your life — be a disciple, follow, be changed, be committed

Make disciples wherever you are.

Make disciple making disciples

Ask God and Answer the Call — Go

Albania opportunity

Outline 2

Intro/Welcome

William Carey intro

Pray

The Great commission

Worship & Wavering (Matt 28:16)

Main verb: make disciple

The How: going, baptizing, teaching

What is a disciple? (Matt 4:19)

Go

Go — intentionally go

As You Go — having a missional mindset

To the nations — all peoples everywhere

Baptize (make new disciples)

Evangelize

Sharing the Gospel

Baptize

Symbolize Union w/ Christ (Rom 6:4)

Immersed into the Trinity

Integrate

Immerse — Into a Local Church Body

Teach them (mature disciples)

Jesus commanded to love (John 13:34-35)

All of law & Prophets (Matt 22:35-40, Rom 13:10, Gal 5:14)

Teach them to Love as Jesus loved

(not just any love, but Jesus-like love) (John 13:34-35, John 15:12-13)

We love b/c Jesus loved (1 John 4:7-11)

We become like Jesus (Luke 6:40, Rom 8:29)

Results in sharing Gods love with others (Circles back to “Go and make disciples”

Make Disciples by Being a Disciples

Complete Def of Disciple

Baptized (see above)

Learning to be Like Him

All Authority in Him (Matt 28:18)

His Presence with You Always (Matt 28:20)

Co-mission (can’t do it alone)

Worship and Wavering

Worship is the Fuel (John Piper)

Wavering (Matt 14:21)

Why we waver? (Fear over Faith — time, equipped, failure)

Faith over Fear (Peter in the Boat)

Not about discipleship — but Jesus

(Eyes fixed on Him)

The Greatest Cause on Earth

The only cause with eternal impact

Be Disciple Makers

Put Jesus First

Make disciples where you are

Make disciple making disciples

Ask (Pray) & Answer the call

Opportunity: Albania

Pray

Outline:

Intro/Welcome

William Cary — The Birth of the Modern Missionary Movement

Pray

The Call to Make Disciples

What Jesus has left us to do.

How do we make disciples?

Making, Maturing and Multiplying

Who is a disciple maker?

Making disciples is connected to being a disciple

What is disciple-making?

parenting, leading

Who will answer the call?

You wouldn't be here today with those who made disciples

You wouldn’t be there in 500 years without those who made disciples

Who has God called you to disciple?

Notes

The best way to make disciples is to be a disciple.

Define Disciple:

A disciple is someone who is following Jesus as Lord and Savior, is becoming more like Him and is commited to the mission of Jesus.

William Carey

From page 135-136

In 1792 the British (through the East India Company) had been in India for more than 150 years. And all that time, not one verse of Scripture has been translated by any British person into a single native language in rural England, a Humboldt Schumaker became stirred to concern for colonial peoples such as those in India. The reports of Captain Cook’s explorations awakened him he learned all he could about other countries the plight of an evangelized continent so burdened him that he covered his walls with Maps, praying while he repaired shoes.

That shoemaker, William Carey, later came to be called “the father of modern missions.“ That he had a little formal education, he demonstrated linguistic gifts early on. He taught himself Greek by using a New Testament commentary. He also learned French and Dutch in a matter of weeks. Most importantly, he began to ponder the responsibility of Christians to reach the unsaved with the word of God.

There is a curiously modern ring to the writing of William Carey. This impoverished part-time pastor, hoping to convince his tiny denomination to begin reaching other nations, wrote a small pamphlet, “an inquiry into the obligation of Christians to use means for the conversion of the heathens.” This “little book with a long name” produced an upheaval that reverberated throughout Christianity. This sentence from that book summarize as one of Carrie’s most significant concepts:

As our blessed Lord has required us to pray that his kingdom come and his will be done on earth as it is in heaven, it becomes us not only to express our desires of that event by word, but I use every lawful method to spread the knowledge of his name.

Carey saw that prayer required a response of obedience. He was convinced that in order to carry out our kingdom Responsibility, the church must be made aware of the actual situation

With this in mind, Kary extensively researched the state of the unsaved world in his day. And more than 20 detailed demographic church showing every continent, compared to countries, their populations, and their exposure to the gospel. His research convincingly demonstrated the tremendous need. After evaluating the compelling nature of the information presented, he called the church to act and discuss the problems that might hinder her from doing so:

The impediments in the way of carrying the gospel among the heathen must arise, I think, from one or other of the following things:

Either their distance from us, they are barbarous and savage manner of living, the danger of being killed by them, the difficulty of procuring the necessities of life, or the unintelligible Ness of their language.

Carey pointed out that none of these difficulties restrain the commercial interest. If people could go for gain, could they not go for God?

One of the greatest obstacles Carrie faced and motivating the church toward her obligation was the popular theological opinion that the great commission was binding only on the apostles.

From Page 125

When he had the opportunity to address a group of ministers, he challenged them to give a reason why the great commission did not apply to them. They are rebuked him, saying, “when God chooses to win the heathen, he will do it without your help or ours.“