We are currently sharing Teaching Notes from a discipleship seminar taught in churches more than 40 years ago.
In our most recent articles we have looked at Part 1 and Part 2 of God’s Purpose For The Disciple and God’s Life For The Disciple. In this article we will share about God’s Work for the Disciple.
We are sharing Teaching Notes from a discipleship seminar taught in churches more than 40 years ago.
In our last article we looked at Part 2 of God’s Purpose For The Disciple. In this article we will look at God’s Life For The Disciple.
We are currently looking at Teaching Notes from a discipleship seminar taught in churches more than 40 years ago. We spent several days with each church sharing insights God had shared with us about being a committed follower of Jesus Christ.
So far in our series we have looked at –
We now look at the second part of God’s Purpose For The Disciple.
In our last Teaching Notes we looked at the disciple’s secret.
In this edition we will look at God’s purpose for the disciple.
In our last Teaching Notes we looked at the work of the disciple of Jesus Christ.
In this edition we will look at the disciple’s secret.
In our last Teaching Notes we looked at the specifics for developing right doctrine (orthodoxy) and right practice (orthopraxy).
In this edition we will look at the work of a disciple of Jesus Christ.
“For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse …” Romans 1:20
At the end of the last part of our study in Romans I said we would look at six of the most powerful words in the Bible. Those words are “so that they are without excuse.” Who are “they” and what did Paul mean when he wrote that “they are without excuse”?
In our last Teaching Notes we looked at the Disciple’s Basic Eight. Those included developing right doctrine (orthodoxy) and right practice (orthopraxy).
In this edition we will look at the specifics for each.
“And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen.” Matthew 28:18-20
The resurrected Jesus stood before His disciples just before He ascended to Heaven. He had their attention. Jesus told His disciples to “go” and “make disciples” in the knowledge that He had “all authority” in heaven and on earth. The disciples knew what Jesus meant by “make disciples” because they were His disciples. They understood the process of becoming a “disciple” of Jesus Christ because He had done that with them. They knew it meant obeying (observing) everything Jesus had commanded them.
In this next section of Teaching Notes we will look at several parts of a discipleship seminar taught at churches during the mid-1970’s. I hope it will help you in your walk with Christ and invite you to share the notes with others who have a desire to be “committed followers” of Jesus.
The term “seeker” is used a lot in Christian circles today (e.g. seeker friendly, seeker sensitive, seeker focused). I found this Bible study about being a seeker from more than 40 years ago that may be helpful as you consider the proper use of the term.
