Leaders have an assignment from Jesus, the head of the church, to equip believers for the work of the ministry, to build them up, and bring them into unity of faith and increasing maturity. His aim is to produce followers who are stable and not easily deceived, sidetracked, or tossed about by the latest wind of doctrine.
It’s rewarding to follow good leaders, but it’s not always easy. Leaders have an assignment from Jesus, the head of the church, to equip believers for the work of the ministry, to build them up and bring them into unity of faith and increasing maturity. His aim is to produce followers who are stable and not easily deceived, sidetracked, or tossed about by the latest wind of doctrine.
Jesus equipped His disciples to turn the world upside down by training them to do His works. He even predicted that they would do greater works than He did. As the time of His return gets ever nearer, the urgency of disciple-making has become paramount.
Jesus equipped His disciples to turn the world upside down by training them to do His works. He even predicted that they would do greater works than He did. As the time of His return gets ever nearer, the urgency of disciple-making has become paramount.
Probably most Christians believe that they should be like Jesus, at least to some extent. However the Bible teaches that Jesus expected his disciples to do the works that he did and to even exceed that by doing greater works than he did. While we are praying and waiting for God to do something like this, he is waiting on us to believe and to step out in faith, and prove Jesus true to his word by doing his works.
In Jesus’ parables, He indicated that at His return, He was expecting to find us doing what He had instructed His followers to do. That means we must be serious about raising up disciple makers for this generation, since His return is more eminent than ever.
Paul leaves for us a model to follow of commitment and passion for making disciples. We can learn from the essential truths he teaches, so that we can “continue to live in him, rooted and built up in him” not only for our own lives, but to also pour into the disciples we make.
In this continuation of last week’s message, we are endeavoring to see how we can more effectively win/save the lost and then disciple the saved as mandated by Jesus
For a sustainable movement of continuous disciple-making, any church body must carry a disciple-making DNA. To succeed, the movement must be organic and produce natural multiplication. Two foundation stones for embracing that kind of DNA is your faith in Jesus Christ and His preeminence in your life.
Jesus taught us to multiply ourselves in others’ lives so that they can in turn multiply themselves into another person. Following Jesus’ model of making disciples, we can bear fruit that remains and impact the world with the Gospel of Jesus Christ!