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What is a Spirit Empowered Disciple?
What is a Spirit Empowered Disciple?
A Spirit-empowered disciple
++Is a lifelong follower of Jesus.
The Holy Spirit forms the character of Christ in believers and helps disciples reproduce them- selves by leading others in that same character formation process.
A Spirit-empowered disciple is
A lifelong follower of Jesus.
++Recognizes the power of the Holy Spirit in its spiritual formation
A Spirit-empowered disciple is called
to dimensions that identify them as disciples
to dimensions deepen there relationship with Jesus
++To dimensions that strengthen there effectiveness in making disciples.
8 But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”
19 Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.
What does disciple mean?
What does disciple mean?
The word Disciple is mentioned primarily in the Gospels and Acts
++KJV 244 times
++NKJ 246 times
++NLT 285 times
The KJV and NKJV records the word Disciples in the Old Testament only one time.
Isa 8:16 “16 Bind up the testimony, Seal the law among my disciples.”
16 Bind up the testimony, Seal the law among my disciples.
This term basically means
++Pupil
++Learner
The base Hebrew word is Limud
++To learn
++To teach (to cause learning to take place)
The NLT Add Gal 6:13
13 And even those who advocate circumcision don’t keep the whole law themselves. They only want you to be circumcised so they can boast about it and claim you as their disciples.
13 For not even those who are circumcised keep the law, but they desire to have you circumcised that they may boast in your flesh.
In the New Testament for disciple means
++learner
++follower
The greek word is Mathetes
++Pupil
++Apprentice
++Adherent
Jesus’ method of making disciples differed radically from the culture of His time: Greek culture deposited information and expected people to change.
Types of Discipleship
++Student-Teacher (Greek)
The Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary Disciple, Discipleship
In Greek culture, the phenomenon of discipleship appears in a number of forms (philosophy students, religious scholarship, and mystery cults). The teacher-student relationship is predominantly characterized by the concept of mimēsis. Teachers and students are bound together by a certain teaching and practice of life, and the student is recognizable in his imitation of the teachings and life of the teacher
But Jesus, true to the Hebrew method of the rabbis, lived life with His disciples, teaching them by example. This is our model: living like Christ in community as He forms us into Spirit-led, life- long learners and followers.
Types of Discipleship
Student-Teacher (Greek)
++Relational Model (Hebrew)
The Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary Disciple, Discipleship
While the rabbinic scholar is bound beyond the teachings of his teacher to the Law, discipleship means an unmediated connection to the person of Jesus (that is, with that which is embodied by this person). While the student is concerned with becoming a teacher himself, discipleship is characterized by an insuperable qualitative difference from Jesus.
God does’t want us to just learn about him but be like him
God does’t want us to just learn about him but be like him
Discipleship is a call to be and a call to do.
Discipleship is a call to be and a call to do.
In the Gospels, when people asked Jesus what God expected of them, He answered several times with words from Deuteronomy and Leviticus: “‘You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your strength, and all your mind.’ And, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself’”
27 So he answered and said, “ ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind,’ and ‘your neighbor as yourself.’ ”
18 You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord.
5 You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.
38 This is the first and great commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’
29 Jesus answered him, “The first of all the commandments is: ‘Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. 30 And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ This is the first commandment. 31 And the second, like it, is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”
A disciple is a call to be
++Lovers of God.
When disciples are in right relationship with God, they are able to do—
A disciple is a call to be
Lovers of God
++to act in love toward their neighbors
The greatest act of love is to reproduce followers of Jesus through fulfilling the Great Commission.
The greatest act of love is to reproduce followers of Jesus through fulfilling the Great Commission.
Jesus’ final command was, “Therefore, go and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Teach these new disciples to obey all the commands I have given you” (Matthew 28:19–20, NLT)
19 Therefore, go and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. 20 Teach these new disciples to obey all the commands I have given you. And be sure of this: I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”