This document outlines three levels of targets for discipleship: evangelizing, edifying, and equipping. Evangelizing involves proclaiming and modeling the gospel to spiritually dead people to bring them to believe in Christ. Edifying instructs and encourages believers to live out the gospel through obedience to Christ. Equipping trains and reproduces faithful believers so they can declare the gospel, preach Christ, and reproduce disciples. The ultimate goal across all three levels is to help people follow Jesus.

1. THE
BIBLICAL
TARGET
OF DISCIPLESHIP
Session Three

2. Session Three Objectives
• To justify the place of Christian judgment in
disciple-making
• To show how every relationship is related to
disciple-making
• To identify the duplicating target of disciple-
making

3. DISCIPLE
to guide or direct someone to be a personal
follower, student, or learner
Making disciples means following Jesus
by helping another person follow Jesus.

4. EVANGELIZING
proclaim & model
Matthew 28:18-20
believe the gospel
know Christ
regeneration
spiritually dead people
where we start

5. Our main mission field
in America today is
within the church.
John MacArthur, Hard to Believe, 101

6. EDIFYING
instruct & encourage
Colossians 1:28-29
Ephesians 4:12-16
live the gospel
obey Christ
sanctification
all believers
until the end

7. EQUIPPING
train & reproduce
Ephesians 4:12
2 Timothy 2:2
declare the gospel
preach Christ
reproduction
faithful believers
end and start again

8. A JUDGMENT CALL

9. 3 TARGET
LEVELS
EVANGELIZING
reach out for Christ
EDIFYING
build up in Christ
EQUIPPING
train up & send out
for Christ