What is Foundational for

Discipling Someone?

What Does It Mean to

be a Disciple of

Jesus?

How Do I Begin to Disciple Someone?

What is Foundational for

Discipling Someone?

Know the Big Picture

Woman Looking at Map

Blueprints

The Big Picture

Jesus

Gospel Church Mission

Our Mission

Glorifying God and Jesus

Proclaiming Discipling Loving

Kingdom of God

Cart before the horse

Beingvs.

Doing

Religion: “I obey; therefore, I’m accepted.”

Gospel: “I’m accepted; therefore, I obey.”

Tim Keller

Being vs. Doing

Colosseum

Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship.

Romans 12:1 (NIV)

Being vs. Doing

Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is —his good, pleasing and perfect will.

Romans 12:2 (NIV)

Being vs. Doing

Oranges in a tree

Grapevine

I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.

John 15:5 (NIV)

What is Foundational for

Discipling Someone?

The Gospel of Jesus

For no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ.

1 Corinthians 3:11 (NIV)

Foundation

I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes...

Romans 1:16 (NIV 84)

Power of God

Whatever happens, conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ.

Philippians 1:27 (NIV)

Power of God

Potter’s Hands

1. Word of God - Study2. Holy Spirit - Prayer3. Church - Fellowship

Three Main Tools

Word of God

To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

John 8:31-32 (NIV)

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.

Colossians 3:16 (NIV)

Word of God

For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.

Hebrews 4:12 (NIV)

Word of God

All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correct ing and t ra in ing in righteousness,

2 Timothy 3:16 (NIV)

Word of God

Bible

Gospel

Jesus

Looking at the Word

1. Hearing2. Reading3. Studying4. Memorizing5. Meditation

Word of God

1. Matthew2. Romans3. Acts

Getting Started

1. What did I learn about Jesus, the Father and the Holy Spirit?

2. What did I learn about myself?3. What did I learn about the gospel?4. What did I learn about being a disciple?5. What does Jesus want me to do with

what I learned?

Questions to Ask

Dove with water

I have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear. But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all the truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come. He will glorify me because it is from me that he will receive what he will make known to you.

John 16:12-14 (NIV)

Holy Spirit

Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

Philippians 4:6-7 (NIV)

Prayer

Prayer

Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; and the peace o f G o d , w h i c h s u r p a s s e s a l l understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

Philippians 4:6-7

Prayer

Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; and the peace o f G o d , w h i c h s u r p a s s e s a l l understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

Philippians 4:6-7

Family at Cross

And God placed all things under his feet and appointed him to be head over everything for the church, which is his body, the fullness of him who fills everything in every way.

Ephesians 1:22-23 (NIV)

Importance of the Church

And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another —and all the more as you see the Day approaching.

Hebrews 10:24-25 (NIV)

Importance of Fellowship

A spiritual gift is given to each of us so we can help each other.

1 Corinthians 12:7 (NLT)

Using Spiritual Gifts

Building Foundation

1. It’s About Jesus2. Our Heart Motivation3. New Identity

Building the Foundation

Jesus

You search the Scriptures because you think they give you eternal life. But the Scriptures point to me!

John 5:39 (NLT)

It’s About Jesus!

Then Jesus said to them, “You foolish people! You find it so hard to believe all that the prophets wrote in the Scriptures. Wasn’t it clearly predicted that the Messiah would have to suffer all these things before entering his glory?” Then Jesus took them through the writings of Moses and all the prophets, explaining from all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.

Luke 24:25-27 (NLT)

It’s About Jesus!

Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”

John 14:6 (NIV)

It’s About Jesus!

Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith...

Hebrews 12:2 (NIV 84)

It’s About Jesus!

I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

Galatians 2:20 (NIV)

It’s About Jesus!

I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.

John 15:5 (NIV)

It’s About Jesus!

Heart

The human heart is the most deceitful of all things, and desperately wicked. Who really knows how bad it is?

Jeremiah 17:9 (NLT)

The Heart

Then Jesus called to the crowd to come and hear. “All of you listen,” he said, “and try to understand. It’s not what goes into your body that defiles you; you are defiled by what comes from your heart.”

Mark 7:14-15 (NLT)

The Heart

And then he added, “It is what comes from inside that defiles you. For from within, out of a person’s heart, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, greed, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, envy, slander, pride, and foolishness. All these vile things come from within; they are what defile you.”

Mark 7:20-23 (NLT)

The Heart

Jesus replied, “I tell you the truth, you want to be with me because I fed you, not because you understood the miraculous signs.

John 6:26 (NLT)

The Heart

Lake of Fire

Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and do not do what I say?

Luke 6:46 (NIV)

The Heart

Jesus replied, “Anyone who loves me will obey my teaching.”

John 14:23 (NIV)

The Heart

“You simply cannot live as God calls for you to live unless you have a practical grasp of the forgiving and enabling grace you've been given.”

Paul Tripp

The Heart

“We can never show the love of Christ until we understand the love of Christ. And we can never understand the love of Christ until we understand His death. And we can never understand the death of Christ until we understand why He died. And we can never understand why He died until we understand His holiness and our sin.”

Ed Stetzer and Philip Nation

The Heart

For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of God’s glory displayed in the face of Christ.

2 Corinthians 4:6 (NIV)

The Heart

U-Turn Sign

Boy Pondering Cross

1. Recognize your sin. (Psalm 139:23-24)2. Identify and understand the lies, false beliefs,

wrong desires and idols behind your sin.3. Take responsibility for your sin & confess it.4. Turn from your sin and turn to God.5. Remember, rejoice and rest in what Jesus

has done for your sin.6. Take hold of the gospel truth for yourself.7. Trust Jesus and ask Him for help. (John 15:5)

Repentance & Faith

Study Psalm 51

Man Looking in Mirror

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.

2 Corinthians 5:17 (NIV 84)

New Identity

The End – 2 Corinthians 5:17

We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God.

2 Corinthians 5:20 (NIV)

New Identity

Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in your midst?

1 Corinthians 3:16 (NIV)

New Identity

So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith, for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.

Galatians 3:26-27 (NIV)

New Identity

But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ,

Philippians 3:20 (NIV)

New Identity

But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.

1 Peter 2:9 (NIV)

New Identity

See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are!...

1 John 3:1 (NIV)

New Identity

...go and make disciples...

Matthew 28:19 (NIV)

New Identity

You cannot change your identity without a radical experience of mercy; without a radical experience of grace; without a radical experience of love.

Tim Keller

New Identity

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