Revisiting Our Core Values:

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Revisiting Our Core Values
Part 2

• COMMITTED TO DISCIPLESHIP

Core Value Deepen commitments and relationship
through discipleship.
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Luke 1425-35

• 25) Large crowds were traveling with Jesus, and
  turning to them he said
• 26) "If anyone comes to me and does not hate his
  father and mother, his wife and children, his
  brothers and sisters--yes, even his own life--he
  cannot be my disciple.

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Luke 1425-35

• 27) And anyone who does not carry his cross and
  follow me cannot be my disciple.
• 28) "Suppose one of you wants to build a tower.
  Will he not first sit down and estimate the cost
  to see if he has enough money to complete it?

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Luke 1425-35

• 29) For if he lays the foundation and is not able
  to finish it, everyone who sees it will ridicule
  him,
• 30) saying, 'This fellow began to build and was
  not able to finish.'

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Luke 1425-35

• 31) "Or suppose a king is about to go to war
  against another king. Will he not first sit down
  and consider whether he is able with ten thousand
  men to oppose the one coming against him with
  twenty thousand?
• 32) If he is not able, he will send a delegation
  while the other is still a long way off and will
  ask for terms of peace.

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Luke 1425-35

• 33) In the same way, any of you who does not give
  up everything he has cannot be my disciple.
• 34) "Salt is good, but if it loses its saltiness,
  how can it be made salty again?
• 35) It is fit neither for the soil nor for the
  manure pile it is thrown out. "He who has ears
  to hear, let him hear."

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Matthew 1618

• I will build my church and the gates of Hades
  will not overcome it

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BCI Core Values

• Enhance worship experience to promote spiritual
  maturity
• Deepen Commitments and relationships through
  DISCIPLESHIP

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Matthew 2819-20The Great Commission

• Therefore go and make disciples of all nations,
  baptizing them in the name of the Father and of
  the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them
  to obey everything I have commanded you. And
  surely I am with you always, to the very end of
  the age."

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Disciple

• occurs 269 times with almost all the references
  found in the Gospels and Acts.
• -is someone who learns.
• -disciple is someone who follows a Master.
• -is someone whose life is shaped by the Masters
  teachings and eventually reflects the Masters
  image - Jesus

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Luke 640

• 40) A student is not above his teacher, but
  everyone who is fully trained will be like his
  teacher.

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Psalm 13515-18

• The idols of the nations are silver and
  gold, made by the hands of men. They have
  mouths, but cannot speak, eyes, but they cannot
  see they have ears, but cannot hear, nor is
  there breath in their mouths. Those who make them
  will be like them, and so will all who trust in
  them.

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What it means to be a Disciple

• MOVE OUT OF CASUAL CHRISTIANITY (v.25)

The LITE CHURCH -24 fewer
commitments -home of the 7.5 tithe -15 minute
sermons -45 minute worship service -only 8
commandments - your choice -3 spiritual laws -800
year millennium
Casual Christianity
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What it means to be a Disciple

• MOVE OUT OF CASUAL CHRISTIANITY (v.25)

The LITE CHURCH -24 fewer
commitments -home of the 7.5 tithe -15 minute
sermons -45 minute worship service -only 8
commandments - your choice -3 spiritual laws -800
year millennium
Casual Christianity
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What it means to be a Disciple

• MEET THE COST OF COMMITMENT (vv. 26-33)

A religion that gives nothing, costs nothing,
and suffers nothing, is worth nothing.
-Martin Luther
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What it means to be a Disciple

• MEET THE COST OF COMMITMENT (vv. 26-33)

A religion that gives nothing, costs nothing,
and suffers nothing, is worth nothing.
-Martin Luther
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What it means to be a Disciple

• MEET THE COST OF COMMITMENT (vv. 26-33)
• A. The Relational Cost (v.26)
• -Disciples must be ready to give second
  place to everyone else in their lives.
• -God must receive the highest love.

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What it means to be a Disciple

• MEET THE COST OF COMMITMENT (vv. 26-33)
• A. The Relational Cost (v.26)
• B. The Sacrificial Cost (v27)
• -Disciples must embrace suffering as a
  part of life.

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(C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity, pp. 163, 164)

• The Christian way is different. . . .
  Christ says, Give me all. I dont want so much
  of your time and so much of your money and so
  much of your work I want you. I have not come to
  torment your natural self, but to kill it. No
  half-measures are any good. I dont want to cut
  off a branch here and a branch there, I want to
  have the whole tree down. I dont want to drill
  the tooth, or crown it, or stop it, but to have
  it out. Hand over the whole natural self, all the
  desires which you think innocent as well as the
  ones you think wicked the whole outfit.

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What it means to be a Disciple

• MEET THE COST OF COMMITMENT (vv. 26-33)
• A. The Relational Cost (v.26)
• B. The Sacrificial Cost (v27)
• -Disciples must embrace suffering as a
  part of life.
• Luke 1433
• 33) In the same way, any of you who does
  not give up everything he has cannot be my
  disciple.

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What it means to be a Disciple

• MULTIPLY YOUR CHRISTLIKENESS (vv.34-35)
• -your life must impact other lives.
• -live a life of influence like a salt.

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Luke 1434-35

• 34) "Salt is good, but if it loses its saltiness,
  how can it be made salty again?
• 35) It is fit neither for the soil nor for the
  manure pile it is thrown out. "He who has ears
  to hear, let him hear."

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What it means to be a Disciple

• MULTIPLY YOUR CHRISTLIKENESS
• How valuable was salt in Jesus day?
• A. It Prevents Decay salt retards decay
• -God wants to use Christians in
  helping others be preserved from the decay that
  comes from the bacteria of evil and sin.
• B. It Provides Flavor Salt also give
  great flavor.
• -God wants Christians as channels of
  His blessings to people whose lives could be
  bland, without joy that comes only from above.
• C. It Promotes Thirst
• -we should be making other people
• thirsty for God.

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What it means to be a Disciple

• MOVE OUT OF CASUAL CHRISTIANITY
• MEET THE COST OF COMMITMENT
• MULTIPLY YOUR CHRISTLIKENESS