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Fishers of men
Last week we discussed the issue of identity.
Who am I?
This week we will significance.
How can I make a difference?
There is a narrative that I have to be someone completely different before God can use me — I am not Billy Graham etc
Then Jesus will show and teach us significance in what we do (our careers) and who we are.
But here we find Jesus fetching the Peter and Andrew where they are doing what they do.
The point was not changing their careers or changing where they live.
In order to change the world, I have to change.
It was to embark on a process of change.
Following Jesus
You can only help people as far as you have changed.
But this is not an issue of perfectionism.
You can disciple someone even if you know one chapter in the Bible more.
I think one of the first things I would do would be to get a small group of eight or ten or twelve men around me that would meet a few hours a week and pay the price.
It would cost them something in time and effort.
I would share with them everything I have, over a period of years.
Then I would actually have twelve ministers among the laymen who in turn could take eight or ten or twelve more and teach them.
I know one or two churches that are doing that, and it is revolutionizing the church.
Christ, I think, set the pattern.
He spent most of his time with twelve men.
He didn’t spend it with a great crowd.
In fact, every time he had a great crowd it seems to me that there weren’t too many results.
The great results, it seems to me, came in his personal interview and in the time he spent with the twelve.
— Billy Graham
215 million people in live audiences over 185 countries
Success in going big or going small?
Defining discipleship
Mt
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μαθητεύω — to make disciples as a verb (one word).
Discipleship is active (it is not like grace that is passive on our side).
Discipleship and training goes together.
It is something you are not, and something you grow into with training.
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Discipleship and training goes together.
Discipleship is central to the mission of Christ.
It is not peripheral or seasonal thing.
The process of training people incrementally in some discipline or way of life.
David Witthoff, ed., The Lexham Cultural Ontology Glossary (Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2014).
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The main point:
We all need a way of life.
Being a Christian is not just a faith or relationship.
It is a way of life.
It is how you live, and what you live for.
There is not such a choice of being a disciple or not being a disciple.
The choice is who disciples you.
Right now you are being discipled.
Discipleship consists of a choice (follow me), teaching and examples, and practicing what you are taught.
The Way
There is no other way
Acts 24:
Discipleship means adherence to Christ, and, because Christ is the object of that adherence, it must take the form of discipleship.
An abstract Christology, a doctrinal system, a general religious knowledge on the subject of grace or on the forgiveness of sins, render discipleship superfluous, and in fact they positively exclude any idea of discipleship whatever, and are essentially inimical to the whole conception of following Christ.
With an abstract idea it is possible to enter into a relation of formal knowledge, to become enthusiastic about it, and perhaps even to put it into practice; but it can never be followed in personal obedience.
Christianity without the living Christ is inevitably Christianity without discipleship, and Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.
It remains an abstract idea, a myth which has a place for the Fatherhood of God, but omits Christ as the living Son.
And a Christianity of that kind is nothing more nor less than the end of discipleship.
In such a religion there is trust in God, but no following of Christ.
Because the Son of God became Man, because he is the Mediator, for that reason alone the only true relation we can have with him is to follow him.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
The Cost of Discipleship (SCM Classics) (Kindle Locations 818-826).
Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd.
Kindle Edition.
adherence = commitment or attachment to person or cause
I cannot relate to Jesus or be committed to Jesus without making the choice to follow him.
Obstacles to the Way
What distracts us from discipleship?
Matt 19:
The love of material comfort and wealth
Luk 9:
Not counting the cost
Disillusionment
The mystery of God
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Offence with people
What should I do?
We are at different stages
New to following Jesus
Making it personal
Helping other people
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