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As a teacher, where does your discipling of others begin and end?
- Why?: As a teacher, where does your discipling of others begin and end?
- What?: To display His glory, God created humanity in His own image (Gen 1:26–30).
Through pride, our first parents marred that image with sin as they rebelled against God’s created order (Gen 3). Their sin passes to each of their descendants and, when we reach the point we know right from wrong, we sin by choosing wrong (Rom 3:23).
God’s plan from before the foundation of the world was to save a people to Himself through the atoning work of Jesus, the Christ (Eph 1:3–10). Jesus came as the perfect image of God (Heb 1:1–4), fully human and yet still fully God. After His resurrection, Jesus gave the embryonic church a commission to make disciples of Himself (Mt 28:16–20) so that we might be conformed to His image (Rom 8:29). When the Holy Spirit came to dwell within Christ’s followers, the church was born and began carrying out the Great Commission to make additional disciples of Jesus (Acts 2). Through a direct line of succession, Jesus’ commission to that early church has come down to us, the church alive today (2 Tim 2:1–2).
As the church carries out the Great Commission, we anticipate our resurrection when we will be completely conformed to Christ’s image even as we seek to be transformed by God to be more Christlike now (1 Cor 15). Part of our transformation is being made coworkers with God (1 Cor 16:15) in seeing new children adopted by God, the Father, and grown by God, the Holy Spirit, to be like God, the Son. As coworkers we are tasked with baptizing those who place their faith in Jesus (Mt 28:19) and teaching them to obey all that God has commanded (Mt 28:20). We do that under His authority (Mt 28:18) and with His presence (Mt 28:20) so that discipleship begins and ends with God. - So What?: When you think of discipling others, do you dismiss the idea because you don’t want to be responsible? Or maybe you just don’t feel adequate to make disciples of Jesus. If you are a teacher, you are a discipler—one who makes disciples of Jesus.
- So What Now?: In the show notes is a list of Bible passages that can help you understand better. Will you commit to studying in God’s Word how He is the beginning and end of discipleship?
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By Dr. Danny R. Bowen @ TeachersOfTheBible- Why?: As a teacher, where does your discipling of others begin and end?
- What?: To display His glory, God created humanity in His own image (Gen 1:26–30).
Through pride, our first parents marred that image with sin as they rebelled against God’s created order (Gen 3). Their sin passes to each of their descendants and, when we reach the point we know right from wrong, we sin by choosing wrong (Rom 3:23).
God’s plan from before the foundation of the world was to save a people to Himself through the atoning work of Jesus, the Christ (Eph 1:3–10). Jesus came as the perfect image of God (Heb 1:1–4), fully human and yet still fully God. After His resurrection, Jesus gave the embryonic church a commission to make disciples of Himself (Mt 28:16–20) so that we might be conformed to His image (Rom 8:29). When the Holy Spirit came to dwell within Christ’s followers, the church was born and began carrying out the Great Commission to make additional disciples of Jesus (Acts 2). Through a direct line of succession, Jesus’ commission to that early church has come down to us, the church alive today (2 Tim 2:1–2).
As the church carries out the Great Commission, we anticipate our resurrection when we will be completely conformed to Christ’s image even as we seek to be transformed by God to be more Christlike now (1 Cor 15). Part of our transformation is being made coworkers with God (1 Cor 16:15) in seeing new children adopted by God, the Father, and grown by God, the Holy Spirit, to be like God, the Son. As coworkers we are tasked with baptizing those who place their faith in Jesus (Mt 28:19) and teaching them to obey all that God has commanded (Mt 28:20). We do that under His authority (Mt 28:18) and with His presence (Mt 28:20) so that discipleship begins and ends with God. - So What?: When you think of discipling others, do you dismiss the idea because you don’t want to be responsible? Or maybe you just don’t feel adequate to make disciples of Jesus. If you are a teacher, you are a discipler—one who makes disciples of Jesus.
- So What Now?: In the show notes is a list of Bible passages that can help you understand better. Will you commit to studying in God’s Word how He is the beginning and end of discipleship?