What is a Disciple?

Published: Oct. 15, 2017, 10 a.m.

Multiply (Pt 1): Living as a Disciple Maker\nWhat is a Disciple?\nOctober 15, 2017\n\nPlease turn in your Bibles to Matthew 4:19 \n \u201c\u2026there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents.\u201d \nLuke 14:7b, 10b\n\n\u201cFollow me and I will make you fishers of men.\u201d Matthew 4:19\n\nDiscipleship: Cause, Process and Effect \n\n1: Cause: \u201cFollow Me\u201d Matthew 4:19a\nApp: Are you a Christ follower? \n\n2: Process: \u201cI will make you\u201d Matthew 4:19b\n\u201cI have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives \nin me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of \nGod, who loved me and gave Himself for me.\u201d Galatians 2:20\n\nYou are not your own; 20 you were bought at a price. Therefore \nhonor God with your bodies. 1Corinthians 6:19b-20\n\nOne Lord: Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your \nmind. Matthew 22:37\nOne Team: By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another. \nJohn 13:35\nOne Mission: Love your neighbor as yourself. Matthew 22:39\n\n3: Effect: \u201cFishers of Men\u201d Matthew 4:19c \n\u201c\u2026the Son can do nothing by Himself; he can do only what He sees His \nFather doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does.\u201d John 5:19\n\n\u201cHe who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; \nfor without Me you can do nothing.\u201d John 15:5b\n\n \u201c\u2026this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God,\n and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.\u201d John 17:3\n\nWhat is God\u2019s Spirit speaking into your life today? How must you respond?