Week 5 Day 6-Become Disciple-Makers

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DAY 6 – bECOMING DISCIPLE-MAKERS

¹⁸ And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on 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.

                                                                                Matthew 28:18-20

    Making Disciples is a life-long project, an extension of evangelism, or sharing the good news of salvation. But what exactly does it mean to be a disciple-maker, and is it required for being a Christian?

    Based on mostly the gospels, the following is a listing not of what describes what the disciples did, but what Jesus taught a disciple must do. In other words, there are many things which describe the disciples, but the following are the only clear prescriptions of what a disciple should be and do.

    A disciple is someone who…

1.   …evangelizes and baptizes converts. (Matthew 28:19, John 4:2)

2.   …makes other disciples. (Matthew 28:19)

3.    …teaches what Jesus taught. (Matthew 28:20, Matthew 10:25)

4.    …obeys and abides in what Jesus commanded. (Matthew 28:20, Luke 6:40, John 8:31)

5.    …loves Christ more than anything and anyone else. (Luke 14:26)

6.    …denies themselves, such as in fasting. (Matthew 16:24, Mark 2:20, Luke 5:35)

7.    …carries his or her cross (a cross was something upon which someone, like Jesus, died) (Matthew 16:24, Luke 14:27)

8.    …forsakes all and follows Christ. (Matthew 10:24-25, Luke 14:33)

9.    …loves other disciples. (John 13:35)

10.  …bears fruit. (John 15:8)

    

    The list above is in no certain order. Arrange on a piece of paper the order for yourself below by placing the prescribed disciple making command easiest to hardest. Or perhaps we should say, the “least hard to the most hard” below.

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    Making disciples and being made a disciple is something that we do not do on our own. We need to find someone, just as John the Baptist had John and Andrew, Jesus had Peter, James, and John. Paul also had Barnabas, Silas, Luke and Timothy.

    Find someone that you have a common interest or frequent interaction with and ask them to either disciple you, be discipled by you, or simply disciple one another. Generally, it works in groups of two to no more than five in small groups which meet throughout the week, but no less than once a week.

    Next week, in Membership Means Improvement, we will go over steps of progress which are to help us chart our Growth.

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