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Title: Discipleship In the Church


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DiscipleshipIn the Church
  • Coming to maturity in Christ

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Discipleship
  • Discipleship is not a church program but a
    spiritual journey that leads to maturity.
  • Through sound Biblical teaching and developing
    transparent supportive relationships within the
    body, believers grow and develop on this journey.

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Making Disciples
Mt. 2819
  • Making disciples involves both an individual
    and group mentoring effort, in which those who
    have greater maturity in Christ encourage and
    serve those who have not traveled as far.
  • Small groups provide a safe environment where
    believers can grow during the seasons of their
    discipleship walk.

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Our Discipleship Walk3 seasonal areas of growth
on the way to spiritual maturity
  • Conversion period
  • Learning the basics of salvation
  • Process of Sanctification
  • Growing in holiness to become strong in the faith
  • Coming into Completeness
  • Deeper walk of dying to self to live for God

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Following Christ A spiritual Journey
  • The Basics
  • When we repent and believe, we are
  • Delivered from the power of sin death
  • Redeemed forgiven
  • Justified made righteous
  • Cleansed from the guilt of sin
  • Consecrated set apart to God

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Going Beyond the Basics
  • Therefore let us leave the elementary
    teachings about Christ and go on to maturity, not
    laying again the foundation of repentance from
    acts that lead to death, and of faith in God,
    instructions about baptisms, the laying on of
    hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal
    judgment. Heb. 61

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The Way of Discipleship
  • The kingdom of God operates on the spiritual
    principle of sowing and reaping. Receiving the
    implanted word, we produce a spiritual crop
    through the transforming power of the Spirit.
  • The pattern of seasonal growth is found in the
    harvest festivals of Israels worship.
  • The feasts of Israel provide a thematic model or
    pattern for spiritual growth. Because Jesus
    fulfilled the feasts, and since we are in Christ,
    we also fulfill the themes of the feasts in the
    seasons of our discipleship walk.

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The Feasts
  • The feasts were divided into three annual
    harvest festivals
  • Passover, the spring barley crop
  • Pentecost, the summer wheat crop
  • Ingathering, the fall crop of grapes olives
  • These three festivals correlate with the seasons
    of our growth as disciples
  • Conversion, Sanctification, Completeness.

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The Seasons of Christian Growth
  • Conversion Coming into the relational knowledge
    of God
  • Sanctification Persevering in trials through the
    power of the Holy Spirit
  • Completeness The season of self-denial, of
    taking up our cross, serving those in need, and
    bearing fruit for the kingdom of God.

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Scriptural Basis for the Themes of Discipleship
  • Phil 310 I want to
  • Know Christ..
  • The power of his resurrection..
  • The fellowship of his sufferings
  • Conversion Coming to know God
  • Sanctification Overcoming in power
  • Completeness Taking up the cross of Christ
    through self-denial

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Themes of the Feasts a Model of Seasonal Growth
  • Theme Conversion
  • Growing in the relational
  • knowledge of God
  • Growth Area Appropriating the initial blessings
    of Salvation by faith
  • Deliverance, Redemption, Forgiveness,
  • Justification, Cleansing, Expiation,
    and Consecration, sharing in Gods holiness

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Themes of the Feasts a Model of Seasonal Growth
  • Theme Sanctification
  • Wielding the power of the Holy Spirit
  • to persevere and overcome
  • Growth Area Walking in the power of our
    salvation that overcomes the world and edifies
    the body, evidenced in dual form.
  • The armor of God
  • The gifts of the Spirit

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Themes of the Feasts a Model of Seasonal Growth
  • Theme Completeness
  • Sharing in the sufferings of Christ
  • Growth Area Coming to maturity in Christ
  • Repentance from works of the Old Man
  • Self denial Taking up the cross and
    developing the character of Christ in service to
    others
  • Rejoicing and peace in the Presence of God

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Some Points to Consider
  • For believers to grow beyond the basics, there
    needs to be teaching on the armor and the gifts.
  • Small groups are the appropriate forum to
    discover and exercise ones spiritual gifts, to
    recognize and respond in authority to spiritual
    battles so the body can be edified, encouraged,
    and strengthened.
  • Anyone who knows the basics of salvation can
    teach them to another. Those discipling others
    beyond the basics should be mature knowing God,
    strong in spirit, overcoming the world and
    consistently expressing the love of Christ.

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  • More on the themes of the feasts
  • and discipleship can be found at
  • http//www.thefirsttrumpet.com/Christian_Disciples
    hip.html

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