Core Value: DISCIPLESHIP is how disciples grow.

Intro

It is every believers responsibility to disciple and be discipled.

Matthew 28:18–20 NASB95

18 And Jesus came up and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. 19 “Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”

The command to make disciples was given to all Jesus’ followers. Even if it was only given to those present, because of the nature of the command it is thus given to all.

Once a disciple is made what is next?

Baptize them

Teach them to obey all that Jesus has commanded you.

Go make disciples.

Discipleship is teaching people how to obey and follow Christ.

Illustration:

John Mark

Steve Timmons

Paul Kelly

Jonathon Tilden

Brian Johnson

Austin Tran

So who is discipling you?

Who are you discipling?

It is the responsibility of every parent to disciple their children.

Deuteronomy 6:4–9 NASB95

4 “Hear, O Israel! The Lord is our God, the Lord is one! 5 “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. 6 “These words, which I am commanding you today, shall be on your heart. 7 “You shall teach them diligently to your sons and shall talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way and when you lie down and when you rise up. 8 “You shall bind them as a sign on your hand and they shall be as frontals on your forehead. 9 “You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

#1 Parents your discipleship of your kids begins with your own love for God.

#2 Parents your discipleship of your kids is to teach them to Love God with all that they are.

#3 Parents your discipleship of your kids is an ongoing process.

#4 Parents your home should be dedicated to the Lord.

How are you discipling your kids?

engage in a spiritual conversation with your child this week at home.

On your drive home today ask your child what they learned about in Sunday School.

Pray with your children when they are laying in bed.

Pray for a lost friend, neighbor, or family at breakfast.

Proverbs 22:6 NASB95

6 Train up a child in the way he should go, Even when he is old he will not depart from it.

This is not a promise, but wise practice.

Ephesians 4:10–16 (NASB95)

10 He who descended is Himself also He who ascended far above all the heavens, so that He might fill all things.)

11 And He gave some as apostles, and some as prophets, and some as evangelists, and some as pastors and teachers,

12 for the equipping of the saints for the work of service, to the building up of the body of Christ;

13 until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the stature which belongs to the fullness of Christ.

14 As a result, we are no longer to be children, tossed here and there by waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, by craftiness in deceitful scheming;

15 but speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into Him who is the head, even Christ,

16 from whom the whole body, being fitted and held together by what every joint supplies, according to the proper working of each individual part, causes the growth of the body for the building up of itself in love.

Jesus calls people to fill specific roles in the church (Pastors, teachers) in order to equip His church for service. This leads to your spiritual maturity.

The word “Service” is from the same root for “Deacon”

Did you know that the role of the office of Deacon was to be the example/model of how the rest of the church is to serve and do ministry?

All the church is to do the work of a deacon, which is to serve and do ministry. and it is the church’s responsibility to equip you to do that, more specifically it is the Pastors and Teachers roles to do that.

Church attendance and participation matters!

You cannot be equipped if you don’t show up.

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