my dad's singing is amusing :P
the monster's back from school camp!! welcome :)
Been reading 1-2-1 discipleship by Christine Dillon and it's really good so i thought i might summarise it and share it with anyone who actually visits this place :D this is chapter one!
1. What is a Disciple
- One on the lifetime process of having their character transformed and moulded to Jesus’ will/ being like Christ is purpose, attitudes and values
- Jesus’ disciples: the twelve disciples, Mary Magdalene, susanna, Joanna (Luke 8:2-3)
- Elijah + Elisha, Paul + Timothy
- 1 Corinthians 11:1 – Follow my example, as I follow the example of Christ.
- 2 Corinthians 3:18 – And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his likeness with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.
- ‘ a Christian who is growing in conformity to Christ, is achieving fruit in evangelism and is working in follow-up to conserve his fruit’ – Gary Kuhne
- John 15:5,7-8 - “I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing… if you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be given you. This is to my Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.”
- You are either a disciple (Christian) or you are not (non-Christian)- no in betweens/differing levels of commitment. 100% commitment!
- Mark 8:34b-38 - “If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me and for the gospel will save it. What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul? If anyone is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will be ashamed of him when he comes in his Father’s glory with the holy angels.”
- “deny himself” = dying to our own ambitions and dreams
- “ take up his cross and follow me” = live fully for Christ
- AIM of discipleship = Christian maturity
- Disciple – a follower of Jesus who is becoming increasingly like Him
- Discipleship – process of becoming more like Jesus, as we are transformed by the Holy Spirit
- Discipling – meeting of one Christian with one or more others, for the purpose of encouraging them in their spiritual growth to be more like Jesus
- One on the lifetime process of having their character transformed and moulded to Jesus’ will/ being like Christ is purpose, attitudes and values
- Jesus’ disciples: the twelve disciples, Mary Magdalene, susanna, Joanna (Luke 8:2-3)
- Elijah + Elisha, Paul + Timothy
- 1 Corinthians 11:1 – Follow my example, as I follow the example of Christ.
- 2 Corinthians 3:18 – And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his likeness with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.
- ‘ a Christian who is growing in conformity to Christ, is achieving fruit in evangelism and is working in follow-up to conserve his fruit’ – Gary Kuhne
- John 15:5,7-8 - “I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing… if you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be given you. This is to my Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.”
- You are either a disciple (Christian) or you are not (non-Christian)- no in betweens/differing levels of commitment. 100% commitment!
- Mark 8:34b-38 - “If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me and for the gospel will save it. What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul? If anyone is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will be ashamed of him when he comes in his Father’s glory with the holy angels.”
- “deny himself” = dying to our own ambitions and dreams
- “ take up his cross and follow me” = live fully for Christ
- AIM of discipleship = Christian maturity
- Disciple – a follower of Jesus who is becoming increasingly like Him
- Discipleship – process of becoming more like Jesus, as we are transformed by the Holy Spirit
- Discipling – meeting of one Christian with one or more others, for the purpose of encouraging them in their spiritual growth to be more like Jesus
was reading some stuff last night and i realised how much of an idiot i was. omg omg omg