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Paul’s Mission was to make Disciples
Paul understood that he had received from Christ the great mission to go and make disciples.
This is the mission of the church
“Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Disciples KNOW Christ Jesus
First true disciples Know Christ Jesus.
Notice what Paul says in our text.
Notice he calls God, my God.
A true disciple of Christ realizes who God is.
God is my God.
True disciples know Christ Jesus personally.
In Mark 1, we find Jesus beginning his ministry.
In vv 9-13, we find his baptism and temptation.
And in v. 14-20 we find the beginning of his earthly ministry.
Notice we find the first aspect of a disciple:
Repentance and allegiance to Christ.
All disciples are first followers of Christ Jesus.
“To be a disciple is to be committed to Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord and committed to following Him every day.
To be a disciple is also to be disciplined in our bodies, minds, and souls.”―
Billy Graham
Disciples GROW in Christ Jesus
Paul not only desires that they know Christ.
That’s not enough for Paul.
His desire is that they grow in Christ too.
Paul wanted to meet the Romans so that he could help them grow in Christ.
True disciples Grow.
We’ve all heard this verse before, but I want to look at one word in this text that makes all the difference.
It’s one of the simplest words, one of the smallest words in the text.
It’s the word “if”.
Just two letters, but the implications are staggering.
If we are in Christ, Paul says.
If. That’s a conditional clause.
It means that if something is true, then something else IS true.
Not might be true, but is true.
“Discipleship is the process of becoming who Jesus would be if he were you.”―Dallas
Willard
True disciples study the word, pray, seek out relationships, and dig deeper to know God and grow in him.
Disciples GO for Christ Jesus
Paul’s desire was not only to help them grow, but by faith in Christ that together they would “reap a harvest among you as well as among the rest of the Gentiles”.
True disciples make other disciples.
One of the basics of biology is one simple truth:
Living things reproduce.
In fact, one of the definitions of death is a lack of reproduction.
When our cells stop reproducing more of themselves, we are dead.
The same is true of Churches and Christians.
“Thriving churches have the Great Commission as the centerpiece of their vision, while dying churches have forgotten the clear command of Christ.”―
Thom S. Rainer, Autopsy of a Deceased Church: 12 Ways to Keep Yours Alive
True disciples produce other disciples.
Notice, Christ does not see reproduction as something we should do, he sees it as essential to our Christian life.
Apart from him, we are thrown away like a branch and wither.
“Making disciples of Jesus is the overflow of the delight in being disciples of Jesus.”―
David Platt, Follow Me: A Call to Die.
A Call to Live.
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