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Part IV: Disciple’s Mission
Ministering as Colaborers
CBCWLA,November 13, 2011
DISCIPLESHIP TRAINING
MasterLife Fellowship
• Question:
– How can I keep on being discipled after Masterlife? Is there any follow-up program available?
• Answer: The Masterlife Fellowship
1) Who: Masterlife alumni
2) When: First Sunday of each month 1:00 PM, starting 1/1/2012.
3) What: Review, fellowship, share, pray.
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What are spiritual gifts?
• Spiritual gifts are spiritual abilities given to believers by the Holy Spirit to equip them to carry out God’s work in the world.
1. What: spiritual abilities
2. Who: given to believers
3. From: the Holy Spirit
4. To: equip them
5. For: the carrying out of God’s work
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Gifts Fruit
Relate to service Relates to character
Are the means to an end Is an end
Given from without Produced from within
All are not possessed by
every believer
Every variety should be
in every believer
Fruit and Gifts
1. To love
2. To preach
3. To be kind
4. To have peace
5. To heal
6. To have joy
7. To help
8. To be faithful
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(Gift)
(Fruit)
(Fruit)
(Fruit)
(Fruit)
(Fruit)
(Gift)
(Gift)
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Talents Spiritual Gifts
Received at natural birth Received at spiritual birth
Natural abilities Spiritual abilities
Christians + non-Christians Only Christians
To inspire or entertain To build up the church
Talents and Spiritual Gifts
1. Sings well
2. Good organizer
3. Teaches the Bible
4. Good at numbers
5. Likes to help people
6. Leads church
7. Plays music instruments
8. Fluent in many languages
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(Talent)
(Talent)
(Talent)
(Talent)
(Talent)
(Spiritual Gift)
(Spiritual Gift)
(Spiritual Gift)
Body of
Christ
Worshipping
Wit
ne
ssin
g Teach
ing
Serving
Calling Disciple Makers
• Job description – Help one Christian grow into a disciple of Christ in
2012. • Pray to God to give you a faithful person to disciple (any
Christian, not necessarily a new convert, who’s interested in being discipled) in the year of 2012.
• Keep in touch with this person every week for at least 3 months. Encourage him/her to stay in God’s grace.
• Help this person to establish the spiritual disciplines that’s characteristic of a disciple: Worship, Bible reading, prayer, fellowship, witnessing, etc.
• Qualification – A practicing disciple of Christ.
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Mark your calendar
• November 20, class time: Spiritual Gifts Workshop and Final Exam.
• December 4, 10:45-12:00 AM: Graduation Celebration at the Dining Room, a joint session (morning class + afternoon class.)
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Evangelism Report
• Turn in a one-page evangelism report by Nov. 20.
– What: to share the gospel of Jesus with an unbeliever.
– When: by Nov. 20
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The Disciple’s Mission
• Week 1: Righting Wrong Relationship
• Week 2: Witnessing and Discipling through Relationships
• Week 3: Establishing Spiritual Children
• Week 4: Maturing as a Disciple
• Week 5: Training Disciples
• Week 6: Ministering as Colaborers
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• A disciple is a person who follows Jesus, who makes Christ the Lord of his or her life.
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Christian Discipleship
• Christian discipleship is
1. developing a personal, lifelong, obedient relationship with Jesus Christ in which he transforms your character into Christlikeness;
2. changes your value into Kingdom values;
3. and involves you in his mission in the home, the church, and the world.
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• A disciple’s mission is to—
– Glorify God by being a lifelong, obedient disciple of the Lord Jesus Christ;
– Glorify God by making disciples of all nations;
– Join God’s mission to—
• Exalt Christ as Lord;
• Reconcile the world to himself;
• Establish his kingdom.
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THE DISCIPLE’S CROSS
CHRIST John 15:5
WORD John
8:31-32
PRAYER John 15:7
FELLOWSHIP John 13:34-35
WITNESS John 15:8
Our relationship with God through Christ is the source of Christian fellowship.
Your vertical relationship affects your horizontal relationships
THE DISCIPLE’S PERSONALITY
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Helmet of Salvation
Breastplate of
Righteousness
The Spiritual
Armor of God
Christian Soldier of CBCWLA
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Gospel Shoes
Belt of Truth
THE WAR WITHOUT
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ANA L Y ZE
EX A M I NE
REMEMBER
APPLY
God’s Word in your HEART and Hand
Hear: Listen to God’s Word
Examine: Read God’s Word
Analyze: Study God’s Word
Remember God’s Word
Think: Meditate on God’s Word
Luke 6:46-49 Jas. 1:22
WITNESS
RESPOND
ESTABLISH TRAIN EQUIP COMMISSION
MATURE DEVELOP REPRODUCE MULTIPLY
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MASTER BUILDER
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Faithful person
You
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The Gospel in Hand
God
Repent
Confess Receive The wages of sin is
death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord (Rom. 6:23).
creates
purposes
death
sin
wages
but
Lord
Christ
Jesus
Eternal life
of God
gift
loves
LIFE
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Next week’s assignment
• Review the main points of “the disciple’s cross,” “the disciple’s personality,” “the spiritual armor,” “the gospel in hand,” and “the master builder.”
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Small Group Time
1. Check each other’s “my walk with the Master this week.”
2. Share your Spiritual-Gifts Inventory with your group members.
3. Share your plan to continue to be disciplined after Masterlife.
4. Pray.
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