DISCIPLESHIP – INTRODUCTION
This is the first Sermon in a series on DISCIPLESHIP
What is it? Term not used in Old Testament.
New Testament: term only used
in four Gospels and Acts
Meaning: learning from a
teacher as in coaching. Watch the Master and do what he/she does. Values,
principles, methods, applications, dealing with challenges and difficulties
2 John 6 And this is love:
that we walk in obedience to his commands. As you have heard from the
beginning, his command is that you walk in love. NIV
Ephesians 5:2 Live a life filled with love, following the example of
Christ. He loved us[a] and offered himself as a sacrifice for us,
a pleasing aroma to God. NLT
1 John 1:6-7 So we are lying if we say we have fellowship with God
but go on living in spiritual darkness; we are not practicing the truth. 7 But if we
are living in the light, as God is in the light, then we have fellowship with
each other, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, cleanses us from all sin. NLT
Age
and Health – remember Jesus was 30 to 33 when he did his ministry!
Analogy
of elevator, and staircase
Revelation 3:3-5 The Sardis Church:
Go
back to what you heard and believed at first; hold to it firmly. Repent and
turn to me again. If you don’t wake up, I will come to you suddenly, as
unexpected as a thief. 4 “Yet there are some in the church in Sardis who have not soiled their clothes with
evil. They will walk with me in white, for they are worthy. 5 All who are
victorious will be clothed in white. I will never erase their names from the
Book of Life, but I will announce before my Father and his angels that they are
mine. NLT
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