Part IV: Disciple’s Mission

Righting Wrong Relationships

CBCWLA，October 9, 2011

DISCIPLESHIP TRAINING

Mark your calendar

• November 20, class time: Spiritual Gifts Workshop and Final Exam.

• November 27, 11:00 AM: Graduation Celebration at the Dining Room, a joint session (morning class + afternoon class.)

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Evangelism Report

• What: to share the gospel of Jesus with an unbeliever.

• When: by Nov. 20

• Turn in a one-page evangelism report by Nov. 20.

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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

CHRIST Disciple’s

personality

WORD John

8:31-32

PRAYER John 15:7

THE DISCIPLE’S VICTORY

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

THE DISCIPLE’S MISSION

CHRIST John 15:5

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

WITNESS

RESPOND

ESTABLISH TRAIN EQUIP COMMISSION

MATURE DEVELOP REPRODUCE MULTIPLY

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MASTER BUILDER

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THE DISCIPLE’S CROSS

CHRIST

WORD

PRAYER

FELLOWSHIP WITNESS

Ministry of Teaching/Preaching

Ministry of Worship/Intercession

Ministry of Nurture

Ministry of Evangelism

If anyone will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily and follow me.

1. The Disciple’s Cross

• As a disciple of Christ you need to establish the following six spiritual disciplines:

1. Spend time with the Master.

2. Live in the Word.

3. Pray in faith.

4. Fellowship with believers.

5. Witness to the world.

6. Minister to others.

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2. The disciple’s personality • Your personality:

1. Do God’s will. Submit yourself to the Lordship of Christ. Shutting down the door of flesh.

2. Renew your mind. Replacing your thought with the word of God.

3. Master your emotions. Identify the biblical response to emotions. Nurture the fruit of the Spirit.

4. Present your body. Surrendering yourself to God. Make yourself useful to him.

5. Be filled with the Spirit. 1. Confess your sin. 2. Present every member of your body to God. 3. Ask God to fill you.

6. Live victorious. Alert to the enemy. Have victory over sin. Claim your victory in Christ.

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• Your salvation testimony:

1. My life and attitude before I follow Christ.

2. How I realized that God was speaking to me.

3. How I became a Christian.

1) Sin is an I-controlled life.

2) Sin’s penalty is separation from God.

3) Christ paid the penalty of sin for me.

4) Receiving Christ as my Lord and Savior.

4. What being a Christian means to me.

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3. The Disciple’s Victory 1. Overcoming the Enemy.

– Overcoming Satan and strongholds: personal strongholds, ideological strongholds, cosmic strongholds.

2. Truth and Faith. – Real faith is based on God’s truth.

3. Rely on God’s Word. – Deposit God’s word into your HEART and get equipped by it.

4. Pray in faith. – Pray according to God’s truth and promises.

5. Look to Jesus. – What are your life purposes and life goals?

6. Stand victorious. – The seeking-God, knowing-God, depending-on-God, believing-

God, and worshiping-God principles.

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4. 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’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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Level One Focus: Self

Motivation: Reward and Punishment

Level Two Focus: Others

Motivation: Models and Examples

Level Three Focus: Principles

Motivation: Responsibility

Stages of Moral Development

60 %

30 %

10 %

I will do this to get a certain result or

to prevent an unwanted result.

I will do this because Jesus would do it or because my church

says so.

I will do this because it is

right.

Relationship Quotient

Do not Listens

listen

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I

She/He

She doesn’t always pay

attention to what I say.

He is a poor listener.

Three reasons to restore relationships

1. Because it matters to God

– Wrong relationships affect your relationship with God.

2. Because it’s an order

– You are commanded to restore relationships.

3. Because it affects your witness

– You are to restore right relationships as a witness to the unsaved world.

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SHAME BLAME

THE BALANCE GAME

People blame others

for things they are

ashamed of.

They will feel shame and

seek to balance the scale again

by:

If they can keep shame and blame in balance, they feel O.K. about

themselves.

When you confess your wrongs, they

won’t be able to accept your

confession and continue to blame you.

As long as they can blame

others, they don’t have to feel shame.

1. Asking your forgiveness and thereby ridding themselves of

shame. Or

2. Refusing to accept your confession so

they can continue to blame you and keep the scales balanced

• Which of these roles is the most difficult for you to carry out?

1. Asking forgiveness when you are the offender.

2. Seeking reconciliation when you have been offended.

3. Acting as a peacemaker.

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When you are the offender

1. How should you prepare yourself for the act of asking forgiveness?

2. What do you do if the other person refuse to forgive you?

3. How to ask for forgiveness?

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Next week’s assignment

• Complete all items in “My walk with the Master this week.”

– Use the Relationship Quotient Form with a family member.

– Visit your neighbors (or friends) and ask for prayer requests.

– Learn the traits of a spiritually dead person, as presented in Master Builder.

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Small Group Time

1. Check each other’s “my walk with the Master this week.”

2. Discuss which of these roles is the most difficult for you to carry out?

A. Asking forgiveness when you are the offender.

B. Seeking reconciliation when you have been offended.

C. Acting as a peacemaker.

3. Discuss your Personal Assessment Worksheet.

4. Pray.

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