2 Kings 2 isn’t a cute Bible-college brochure. It’s a field manual. In this 2015 message, Pastor Greg Mitchell contrasts the “sons of the prophets” model with Elisha’s gritty, relational discipleship. Result: information alone never produced a prophet, but impartation and obedience did.

Key themes

Bible school vs. Bible method

Three traps: head-knowledge pride, spectator Christianity, lip-service to headship

Five marks of real discipleship: impartation, direction, cost, service, supernatural power

“Double portion” = inheritance and authority to lead

Scriptures: 2 Kings 2; 1 Kings 19:19–21; James 1:22; Luke 5:4; Matthew 28:19.

Chapters

00:00 – Opening and text: 2 Kings 2

00:34 – Diagnosis: culture in decline

02:20 – Do Bible schools fix it?

04:42 – Origins of “sons of the prophets”

07:01 – Why prophet school didn’t work

09:17 – Pastor Mitchell’s Bible-school experience

13:01 – Our DNA: a discipleship movement

15:18 – Clash with denomination over Bible school

17:40 – The new drift back to schooling

20:06 – Mistake #1: Information ≠ qualification

23:16 – Mistake #2: Proximity without participation

27:29 – Mistake #3: Mouth “submission,” resist direction

33:17 – What works: the marks of discipleship

35:42 – Cost and service before microphones

37:42 – Don’t go to a gunfight without the supernatural

40:56 – “Double portion” explained: inheritance and authority

43:23 – Call to repentance and challenge to act

Show Notes

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