Becoming Jesus-

Followers

Disciple-followers of Jesus

1. Becoming – Becoming Jesus-Followers

2. Being – Being a Disciple (the Noun)

3. Doing – Doing Discipling (the Verb)

4. Forming – Disciple-making Communities

Livingin His Logos

Bearing Fruit

More Fruit Much Fruit

Lasting Fruit 

Dying to

Self-n-Stuff

Disciple-making

The Elements

Baptism

Communion

Gifts &Service

Disciple-makingTwo Modes (Mark 3.14; 6.7)

1. Intimacy – With Him

2. Involvement – Sent out

F-R-I-E-N-D-SThe Jesus Approach

He Found a few teachable people

He Related to them and spent time with them

He Invested His life in them

He Exhibited a quality lifestyle around them

He Nominated them to try it for themselves

He Directed them towards excellence through supervision

He Sent them out to reproduce

Rob Burns, Going Public VOCATE Director

4.Disciple-making

Communities

Disciple-making CommunitiesActs 2:2 Suddenly, a sound, like a violent wind blowing, came

from heaven and filled the entire house where they were sitting.Acts 2:46 Every day they continued to gather together by

common consent in the temple courts, breaking bread from house to house, sharing their food with glad and humble hearts,

Acts 5:42 And every day both in the temple courts and from house to house, they did not stop teaching and proclaiming the good news that Jesus was the Christ.

Acts 8:3 But Saul was trying to destroy the church; entering one house after another, he dragged off both men and women and put them in prison.

Acts 16:15 After she and her household were baptized, she urged us, "If you consider me to be a believer in the Lord, come and stay in my house." And she persuaded us.

Acts 20:20 You know that I did not hold back from proclaiming to you anything that would be helpful, and from teaching you publicly and from house to house…

Disciple-making Communities

Romans 16:5 Also greet the church in their house.

1 Corinthians 16:19 The churches in the province of Asia send greetings to you. Aquila and Prisca greet you warmly in the Lord, with the church that meets in their house.

Colossians 4:15 Give my greetings to the brothers and sisters who are in Laodicea and to Nympha and the church that meets in her house.

Philemon 1:2 to Apphia our sister, to Archippus our fellow soldier, and to the church that meets in your house.

Disciple-making Communities

1 Timothy 3:15 I am writing to you, in case I am delayed, to let you know how people ought to conduct themselves in the household of God, because it is the church of the living God, the support and bulwark of the truth.

1 Peter 2:5 you yourselves, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood and to offer spiritual sacrifices that are acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

Mentor

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Disciple-making

CommunitiesThe 1-2-3 Approach

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4.Disciple-making

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Church Discipleship Strategies…

Inspire Movementhttp://www.inspire-network.org.uk/

Multiply Movementhttps://www.multiplymovement.com

Strategic Discipleshiphttp://strategicdiscipleship.com