The Current Context of Discipleship
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This document discusses key principles of discipleship according to Jesus. It distinguishes between personal discipleship focused on following Christ and man-centered discipleship. Some discipleship "tips" mentioned are that discipleship primarily occurs through everyday living, it requires sacrifice though not complex, it involves enduring difficulties among other sinners, it focuses on individuals rather than programs, and obeying the command to love others is necessary to obey the command to make disciples of all nations.
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- 1. THE CURRENT CONTEXT OF DISCIPLESHIP Session Six
- 2. Session Six Objectives • To distinguish between personal discipleship and man-centered discipleship • To share some discipleship “tips”
- 3. YOU CAN CALL ME -AL Or, Contextualization and Mission-al Living
- 4. RANTS Or, Things I’m Not Tired of Talking About Yet Or, “Tips”
- 5. We learn about discipleship from Jesus.
- 6. Discipleship is primarily an “as we’re going” task. while going Matthew 28:19-20 MAKE DISCIPLES of all nations baptizing them teaching them
- 7. Discipleship is free, but it will cost us everything.
- 8. Though not complex, discipleship is messy.
- 9. Living among fellow sinners, learning how to deal with it properly, is the principle form of industrial grade sandpaper that the Holy Spirit uses on us. But many pietists, ... withdraw from that treatment, shrinking from it, and all in the name of maintaining their smooth surfaces. But hiding the rough cut lumber in an unlit shed is not the same thing as sanding. Doug Wilson,”Holy Ghost Industrial Sandpaper”
- 10. Though not complex, discipleship is messy. The mess might hurt. The mess will test your patience. The Trinity is not freaking out over sinners or immature believers. We cannot out-mess the gospel.
- 11. Discipleship is about persons not about programs.
- 12. Structures don’t grow ministry any more than trellises grow vines. Marshall and Payne, The Trellis and the Vine, 17
- 13. Focus on the few to reach the many.
- 14. Seek to help disciples become independently dependent on Christ.
- 15. The older/wiser need to get to work. Titus 2:1-6
- 16. You won’t obey the Great Commission if you aren’t obeying the Great Commandment. cf. 1 Timothy 4:15-16