The Disciple and Solitude in a Social Media Age
One of the first things we see Jesus do in Luke, after calling his first disciples, is find time to get away from it all and pray. We see this in Luke 5:16. He had just healed a man with leprosy. News was spreading. Crowds were forming. Jesus was in high demand. In today’s social […]
Understand Who You Are Following – A Few Words About Jesus
Jesus. He goes by many titles. Each one means something significant that will help us follow him more closely. We call him: Lord – he is in charge (Matt 8:2) Christ/Messiah – This means anointed one (Implies he is King – John 1:17) Savior – He is the liberator from all that oppresses us including […]
Jesus Preaches & Demonstrates the Gospel in Our Presence
Over the next several posts we will be paying attention to the methods Jesus used to make disciples. Jesus is the greatest discipler who ever lived. Let’s learn from his example as we have already determined that each of us are called by Christ to be discipled by Christ. So let’s let him disciple us […]
Parallel NIV/Greek New Testament PDF on the word “Disciple”
I am attaching a pdf for you to download that has all the occurrences of the word “disciple” in the NIV paralleled with the Greek New Testament. There are nearly 300 occurences of this word in the New Testament! In contrast the word “Christian” appears less than half a dozen times. In our current way […]
One Step
Discipleship is a journey. It isn’t a sprint. It isn’t a label. It is a trek…an expedition with Jesus in the lead. Where he goes, we follow. Jesus doesn’t always go where we want him to go. Remember him resolutely setting his face toward Jerusalem where he would suffer and die? Remember him prophesying his […]
Not Everyone Jesus Called Followed Him
There were people who believed in Jesus but never followed his call. At the end of Luke 9 (vs 57-62) we find a string of people who have interactions with Jesus but who all decide not to follow him. The first man offers to follow Jesus saying, “I will follow you wherever you go.” Jesus […]
Jesus and Our Failures
Jesus was God, is God, and always will be God. When Jesus was on the earth he was God and man perfectly intertwined. This is a complicated subject that I don’t want to spend a lot of time on other than to say this – Jesus knew everything. He knew the thoughts of people (Luke […]
Developing Essential Discipleship Resources
I am starting work on a variety of resources that will be available for download on this site. They will all be building blocks in the discipleship journey. The idea is that as we discuss various matters pertaining to following Jesus it helps to have specific resources to help along the way. For instance, when […]
Jesus’ Discipleship University
This may be the most important post yet in our discipleship discussion. I am going to lay out a progression that Jesus purposefully left for us by his example. He was the master discipler and I believe that the best way to learn to be a disciple and learn to make disciples is to follow […]
The 4,380,000 Step Plan For Discipleship
4000 steps a day. 365 days in a year. 3 years with Jesus. If the disciples walked 4,380,000 steps with Jesus (I bet it was far more) we learn immediately that there is no 5 step plan to becoming a disciple of Jesus. There is a 4,380,000 step plan. It is going to take every […]