three kinds of responses to Jesus

UNREMARKABLE ADMIRATION

UNHINDERED ADORATION

UNRESTRAINED ABOMINATION

Discipleship is a calling to pursue the Lord all out… all the time…

SIX IMPERATIVES:

Devote Yourself to Corporate Worship

Do Not Neglect Your Spiritual Gifts

Do Practice Your Spiritual Gifts

Dive Deep into Progress

Detect Potential Problems

Do Not Quit

this truth is for...

DISCIPLES

who must do our Christian...

DUTY

without forgetting our need for...

DEPENDENCE

three FACETS of Distinctive Discipleship:

the Prize

the Process

the Person

TakeAways:

Choose one spiritual discipline and focus on it daily this week (bible reading/ scripture memory, prayer, worship, giving, evangelism).

Assess motives “spiritual disciplines are not meant to make you more liked by Jesus but to make you more like Jesus” (Agnew, page 120).

Be patient & consistent

development as a disciple shows up in three areas...

HOW WE TALK

HOW WE THINK

WHAT WE TOTE

Take-Aways:

be serious about spiritual gifts

develop in every category of discipleship

let our development increasingly unify our fellowship

if you're developing normally, keep it up!

right doctrine has four qualities:

WELDED TO THE WORD

MAJORS ON THE MAJORS

QUENCHES QUARRELS

SHUNS SILLINESS

Series Week 1: Survey of 6 Categories of Distinctive Discipleship

Series Week 2: digging in to the Disciple's DELIGHT

TODAY's Sermon: digging in to the Disciple's DISOBEDIENCE

REMEMBER YOUR EXAMPLES

READY YOURSELF

RUN YOUR RACE

RELY ON CHRIST

CATASTROPHES

CAUSES

CURE

An Overview of the six categories of Distinctive Discipleship:

DELIGHT

DISOBEDIENCE

DOCTRINE

DEVELOPMENT

DISCIPLINE

DEPENDENCE

Things God Provides

FELLOWSHIP

FRUIT

FULLNESS

FRAGRANCE