Discipleship is not biblical #3

The David Alliance

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Think of it this way… if the word jog was in the Bible, but not the word jogger or runner… and I asked you what a runner did or a jogger did, and you would talk about all the shoes they have, the shorts they wear, the routes they run the apps that track their progress, the marathons they have medals for, the runner magazine they read… but you never mention they run… Runners Run. And disciples make disciples - period. 

 

 

***The church has magnified and glorified becoming more like Jesus, but not doing what Jesus does.

 

The power behind “becoming more like Jesus” comes from learning our need/lack/void of leading people to Christ. 

 

 

My job is not to teach you, lead you equip you, pray for you, comfort you, grow you, heal you, love you, encourage you… outside of it making you a better DISCIPLE maker… or its pointless, its selfish, it is only self gratifying.  

 

 

You go to tell someone about Jesus and they are trans, gay, atheist, Muslim.

You go to pray for someone in witnessing and they are not healed, freed or delivered.

You get asked a question that you can’t answer….

THIS IS THE CATALYST OF YOU BECOMING MORE LIKE CHRIST- MORE THAN YOUR BIBLE READING… HELLO???? DID YOU HEAR THAT?

 

 

 

 

We are the body of Christ… a body eats, sleeps, works, rests, exercises… but if the body never reproduces… ?? Is it really doing its job? It is a selfish short lived existence. 

 

When do you know a body is healthy… when an organism is healthy? When it can reproduce. 

 

 

Stolen Valor is a term used by those who pretend to have served in the Armed Forces… (lots of videos on YouTube) But its disgusting to those who have served. They did not serve, they did not lose their brothers and they did not sacrifice…. DISGUSTING.

*Isn’t it the same if you call yourself a disciple and you have not served, You haven’t lost people to hell you tried to save, you have not sacrificed for the gospel? 

IS THAT CHRISTIAN STOLEN VALOR?

 

  - Some churches are more concerned with funding programs than creating disciple makers. THIS IS WHY Christianity has plunged in the last 100 years in our country. **you say well sin has gotten worse… I say it is because we have not made disciples to combat the war on sin.

 

Ez. 22:29The people of the land have practiced extortion and committed robbery. They have oppressed the poor and needy and have exploited the foreign resident without justice. 30I searched for a man among them to repair the wall and stand in the gap before Me on behalf of the land, so that I should not destroy it. But I found no one. 31So I have poured out My indignation upon them and consumed them with the fire of My fury. I have brought their ways down upon their own heads, declares the Lord GOD.”…

 

The whole chapter concedes that God was looking for anyone

The mindset here is that God was looking for anyone to call the people to repentance - aka make disciples… But there was no one.