Sunday, January 16, 2022 - Disciple: Learn, Live, Lead

We are starting our year out with a series called Disciple:  The year that changed everything.   Last week Matthew shared about our reading plan called ROAD.  If you have not started the reading plan pick up the materials today at the HUB and join us as we read God’s Word together.  If you complete the year, you will have made your way through the entire NT.   In addition you will be leaving a spiritual heritage for your family, you will have connected with God and others in a deeper way.   

 

We have spent the past few years giving emphasis to our DNA—Connect, Reach, Build and Care.  Who we are as a church, this series gives emphasis to our mission statement—We exist to make disciples.  What does it mean to be a disciple of Jesus?  Jesus’ invitation to people in the NT was to follow and in following they became disciples.  So what is a disciple?   We throw the word around but we don’t often define the word.   If you step back from the Bible and look at it as a whole three things emerge that define a follower or disciple of Jesus.  

 

The Great Commission that Jesus left us to fulfill says MATT 28:19-20—GO THEREFORE AND MAKE DISCIPLES OF ALL THE NATIONS, BAPTIZING THEM IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER, THE SON AND THE HOLY SPIRIT, TEACHING THEM TO OBSERVE ALL THAT I COMMANDED YOU, AND LO, I AM WITH YOU ALWAYS , EVEN TO THE END OF THE AGE. 

 

If you break that passage down you will see that there are three steps to discipleship.  There is the learning, the living and the leading.   Teach them (Learn) to observe (Live) make disciples (Lead).