Selecting a Disciple-Maker's Message Essay

AO2: Explain how this teaching about discipleship might affect the life of a Christian today.

“Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting” (KJV Ps. 139:23-24). In this verse, David asks God to help him search his heart so that he can be closer to God. Without God, the process of self-evaluation is impossible as David states in his psalm. What makes David such a good source for advice? In the Bible, David is known as “a man after God’s own heart” (1 Sam. 13:14). If David recognized the importance of self-evaluation, then every Christian should continually evaluate themselves according to God’s principles in the Bible. In this paper, I will be examining my spiritual and discipleship condition in relation to myself, God, and others.

The most important of the four sources is inspiration through the Holy Spirit. The Bible is God’s instrument for communicating His message to us. Foster states implicitly, “Scripture must pervade and penetrate all our thinking and acting. The one Spirit will never lead in opposition to the written Word that he inspired. There must always be the outward authority of Scripture as well as the inward authority of the Holy Spirit” (Foster 1998, 188). Pazmiño also lends the view point on the importance of inspiration in education, “Indeed, through the work of the Holy Spirit, members of God’s household are to discern and cultivate new patterns of believing and being that breathe

Jesus then goes from speaking to His disciples specifically, to calling out to the whole crowd, in which He goes from speaking plainly to once again speaking in metaphors and riddles. Within this passage Mark uses the words of Jesus to reveal the true cost of discipleship. He tells the crowd that if anyone chooses to come after Him then the condition of that decision is that they must take up their cross and follow Him. So one must ask: What does it mean to deny yourself? What does it mean to take up your cross? And when you follow Him where are you going? So then one must put this into context by looking at what has not yet happened in Mark. When Jesus denies Himself, He is essentially denying the human instinct to self preserve through a fight or flight response. When Jesus picked up His cross, He was deciding to be rejected, tortured, mocked and falsely accused on His way to Calvary where He died for the sins of all. Therefore, if you want to go after Jesus, you must be willing to commit to sharing the gospel with others at all costs, you must be willing to tortured, mocked, and falsely accused and you must also be willing to die, not necessarily for anything that you have done, but so that others can reach salvation. Historically, during this time period, the cross was a well known style of execution in Rome, and so although one reading this might see this as simply a metaphor, it is actually a foreshadowing of reality, which can be seen in the fact that all the

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The mandate of the Body of Christ to make disciples has been established. The Church needs to embody in physical structuring and deeds what is necessary to make this happen. It is obvious we need to do whatever it takes to make that a reality.

Discipleship is a process by which one individual helps another become a disciple, or convinced adherent (Merriam-Webster, 2016), of a teacher or movement. Although there are many discipleship models available, a comparison of two discipleship models – LifeShapes (Breen and Cockram, 2009) and Disciplines (Foster, 2002) – reflects two different attempts to teach the same concepts. The following represents a contrast of the key components of the two discipleship models, a discussion of the models considering a Christian worldview, potential applications of the discipleship models, and the presentation of a new discipleship model.

As a life coach you can have a tremendous impact on how the future of your client come to past. A Christian life coach helpS your client to clarify their vision, set goals, and help them move towards their mission is vital because it can help the client to see their life purpose here on earth. Often clients seek for a life coach to improve areas of their life that they would like to change. According to the article, Evidence-Based Well-Being/Positive Psychology Assessment and Intervention with Quality of Life Therapy and Coaching and the Quality of Life Inventory, a client can improve satisfaction in areas of their life by changing their circumstances, attitudes, goals or standards, and priorities that your client feels is important to them

The missional task of discipleship. How do we prepare ourselves to nurture ourselves or others when they hear a call in their lives such as that of Jesus. A call that simply says “Follow Me.” A call toward a life shaped by Jesus for the rest of their days. Maybe it is a call to a specific task, maybe it’s a call to a new vocation, or maybe it’s a call to make disciples for Jesus. How do we as Christians prepare ourselves and others for this kind of call to discipleship- this kind of life transforming trust and faith in Jesus Christ and what God has planned for our lives? It is all through faith. Through trusting and believing in Jesus Christ. And we have to have faith and trust no matter how we receive a

Each of the four gospels portrays Jesus in a unique way. While Mark presents Jesus as the Suffering Servant, Matthew portrays Him as the new Moses. Luke, on the other hand, emphasizes Jesus’ compassion and humanity, which renders Him as the Universal Savior of mankind. Interestingly, though guided by one God, each author presents different aspects and definitions of discipleship. Luke’s Gospel, especially, provides us a glimpse of discipleship that is not easy; in fact, it takes trust and persistence. Specifically, in Luke 11:5-13, definition and characteristics of what it takes to be a disciple are building relationships, persistence in prayer, and trust in God. While other gospels mention Jesus’ teachings, they are more focused on His life.

Sources for Christian belief are those things that deliver information about God and act as vehicles for what God reveals. Norms are standards by which any information is tested to be accurate and true. Charles Wesley describes these sources and norms for Christian belief as Scripture, Tradition, Reason, Experience.1 Although he was not the first, what he articulated came to be known as the Wesleyan Quadrilateral. To sum this up, Christians believe in many things for a wide variety of reasons and the importance of sources and norms are vehicles to a Christian’s way of thinking in what to belief in and for what reason. Basically making sense to a Christian’s thought and views. Like a four-legged stool with each source and norm, uphold the

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Discipleship is more than leading someone from unbelief to belief, then from new believer to disciple maker. It requires leaders or “parents” to become fully involved in the discipleship process. Many leaders are too ill-equipped or are limited in their ability to disciple others. Putman shares “Since they have never been disciplined themselves, these leaders find that they have a limited grasp on how to make disciples.” To be effective in discipleship leaders must produce a structure that incorporates relationship.

All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work (2 Tim. 3:16-17). Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth (2 Tim. 2:15).