During this series we have said over and over to follow Jesus means you are making followers of Jesus. If you are not making followers, you’re not following. Why does He need me making His followers? The last time I preached on July 7 we saw God has a process from a person coming to Christ to growing in Christ to being rewarded in Christ that involves the Father, Son, and Spirit. The process is entirely accomplished by God. No part of it is dependent upon us, but God lets us participate. Our focus that day was the blessing of being able to touch eternity, to do things that will last forever. Go tell. Go share. Go encourage. Today I add to that: making disciples is our discipleship. We are most learning, most growing, most experiencing when we are helping someone else do the same.
Hospitality as a Primary Work for Discipling Your Community
August 4, 2024 • Rev. Jordan West
Order your life so that you are walking with Christ. Have the accountability and community that will encourage you to abide with him. Have rhythms of life that allow for you to be with God so much that it fuels your doing for God. When we understand the love of God we will love others. View hospitality as a primary work for evangelism and discipling in your community. Regularly make time to meet with others and have spiritual conversations.
Making Disciples In My Church
July 28, 2024 • Rev. Shay Osborne
We want to be a church of people growing in relationship with Jesus and helping others to do the same. What roles do church leaders and church members play in the process?
How To Make Disciples In My Home
July 21, 2024 • Rev. Shay Osborne
Each of us is called to be a disciple and make disciples. God has given us the home as a primary place to live out this command. This week we look at how to make disciples in our homes.
To Touch Eternity
July 7, 2024 • Dr. Randall T. Hahn
I would imagine for some of us, maybe a lot of us, this is a new idea, so much emphasis on this one thing: making disciples. We might wonder, why, Why does Jesus need me to make His followers? I mean He made the first batch without me, and they did pretty good, so why now does He need me? Here’s the answer. He doesn’t need you. He lets you.
Are You Hitting The Target?
June 30, 2024 • Dr. Randall T. Hahn
Today is 4 weeks of 10. Last week we looked at the disciplines, the habits that help us grow in the Lord. And we were thinking about how we grow in the Lord because that’s our definition of a disciple: A disciple is someone growing in their relationship with Jesus and helping others to do the same. I hope you thought about your plan this week. We don’t just wake up one day like Jesus. We have a plan for how we get there. Now if we have a plan, we are purposely doing things to grow with Jesus, to follow Him closely at some point we might wonder, 'Is this working? How do I know it is working?' We need to do is define the target. We know our success in relation to the target.
Have A Plan
June 23, 2024 • Dr. Randall T. Hahn
Today is the 3rd in a series of 10 messages where we are seeking to understand the task Jesus left us with, the thing we are supposed to do until we die, or He returns: make disciples. We finished last week with a working definition of a disciple. A disciple is someone growing in their relationship with Jesus and helping others do the same. We can’t separate being a disciple from making a disciple because a disciple of Jesus makes disciples. Let’s think today about that phrase 'growing in their relationship with Jesus'. What are we doing to grow? What are we doing to keep Jesus in focus, His voice tuned in? We need habits or disciplines to help us.
What Is A Disciple?
June 16, 2024 • Dr. Randall T. Hahn
Last week we began a 10-week series on discipleship. Three takeaways from that: 1) Jesus has called you to be a disciple, 2) Jesus has called you to make disciples; 3) We want to be a disciple-making church. The word disciple seems pretty big to Jesus. Do we know what a disciple is? I think about the only place we hear that word is when we hear 'discipleship', and that is a class you take on a particular night of the week. We are treating discipleship, disciple-making as an event. It starts here and ends there, always at church. But Jesus is calling us to is a way of life. Today we are going to try to define that life, what a disciple is.
What Will He Catch You Doing?
June 9, 2024 • Dr. Randall T. Hahn
What would you like Jesus to find you doing, when He returns? Worshiping at church? Serving food at a homeless shelter? Praying and reading your Bible? On a mission trip? I think I’d feel pretty good with any of those, but what are the odds of Jesus returning while I am doing one of those things? Well, while I do hope He returns when I am doing one of those things, the good news is I could be, you could be asleep, or watching a football game, shopping, or at work answering an email when He returns, and be found faithful and enjoy all that comes with that. Jesus’ challenge here is not about a moment, but a life. Blessed is the servant who has given their life to what Jesus called them to do.
