Discipleship

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Discipleship

• Matthew 28 18-20

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• All authority has been given to Me in heaven
  and on earth. Go, therefore, and make disciples
  of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the
  Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
  teaching them to observe everything I have
  commanded you. And truly, I am with you always,
  to the end of the age. Matthew 2818-20

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• A disciple is someone who has decided to be
  with another person in order to become capable of
  doing what that person does or becoming who that
  person is.
• - Dallas Willard (professor, speaker,
  author)

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• Bearing a cross does not mean primarily
  having hard times. It means going to Golgotha. It
  means dying with Christdying to the old
  attitudes of envy and strife and jealousy and
  anger and selfishness and pride and turning to
  follow Jesus in newness of life. When we make
  disciples, we bid people to come and die to their
  old, destructive ways and to live for Jesus, who
  loved them and gave himself for them.
• John Piper
  (pastor, theologian)

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4 Generations of Disciples

• 2 Timothy 22, What you have heard from me
  in the presence of many witnesses, commit to
  faithful men who will be able to teach others
  also.

1st generation Paul
2nd generation Timothy
3rd generation faithful men
4th generation others
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• Hebrews 512-14, In fact, though by this
  time you ought to be teachers, you need someone
  to teach you the elementary truths of God's word
  all over again. You need milk, not solid food!
  Anyone who lives on milk, being still an infant,
  is not acquainted with the teaching about
  righteousness. But solid food is for the mature,
  who by constant use have trained themselves to
  distinguish good from evil.
• 1 Peter 22, Like newborn babies, crave
  pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow
  up in your salvation.

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What can a newborn do?
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Where does a baby learn to eat?
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• Luke 612-13, During those days He went out
  to the mountain to pray and spent all night in
  prayer to God. When daylight came, He summoned
  His disciples, and He chose 12 of them.

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Addition versus Multiplication

• Addition One preacher wins 3,000 people for
  Christ EVERY DAY (like the day of Pentecost Acts
  241)
• Multiplication One Christian wins two people to
  Christ the first year. Each year afterward, EVERY
  Christian wins two more people

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Year Addition Multiplication
1 1 1
2 1.1 million 3
3 2.2 million 9
4 3.3 million 27
5 4.4 million 81
6 5.5 million 243
7 6.6 million 729
8 7.7 million 2,187
9 8.8 million 6,561
10 9.9 million 19,683
11 11 million 59,049
12 12.1 million 177,147
13 13.2 million 531,441
14 14.3 million 1.6 million
15 15.4 million 4.8 million
16 16.5 million 14 million
17 17.6 million 43 million
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Year Addition Multiplication
18 18.7 million 129 million
19 19.8 million 387 million
20 20.9 million 1.1 billion
21 22 million 3.5 billion
22 23.1 million 10.5 billion
5,480 6 billion
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• Who will you disciple?