Discipleship: God’s Life-Changing Work- An Exciting Challenge

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Discipleship: God’s Life-Changing Work– An Exciting Challenge

The Six Ingredients of God’s Life- Changing Work

1.  (Dedicated!    )

2.  (Devoted!    )

3.  (Disciplined!   )

4.  (Diligent!   )

5.  (Daring!      )

6.  (Dynamic!   )

What difference would disciples demonstrating these characteristics make in your church and community?

Acts 17:6, turned their part of the world (upside      ) down:

“When they did not find them, they dragged Jason and some of the brothers before the city officials, shouting, ‘These men who have turned the world upside down have come here too.’ ”

The challenge of those who have walked before us: “Turn it upside down!”

1.  (anticipation    )

2. (  joy           )

3. make a (       difference    ) in observable ways.

Christians striving to make a difference must have three qualities:

• hunger
  • challenge the status quo
  • “Turn the world upside down!” means we are to be world (  changers    )

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DISCIPLESHIP: Discipleship is God’s Life-Changing Work

A Remarkable Purpose

How can the disciple’s heart retain the fire of inspiration? Maybe the incredible response to The Purpose- Driven Life reveals one answer or at least provides some pretty good hints:

1. People want to know why they (    exist    )and God’s intentions for them personally.

“What does God want for me?”

The Holy Spirit spoke through Paul to give an answer to the Corinthian, Ephesian, Philippian, and Colossian disciples:

“We all, with unveiled faces, are reflecting the glory of the Lord and are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory; this is from the Lord who is the Spirit” (2 Cor. 3:18).

“… so that you may be blameless and pure, children of God who are faultless in a crooked and perverted generation, among whom you shine like stars in the world” (Phil. 2:15).

“… until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of God’s Son, growing into a mature man with a stature measured by Christ’s fullness” (Eph. 4:13).

“… have put on the new man, who is being renewed in knowledge according to the image of his Creator” (Col. 3:10).

Our purpose is to be (  reflections   ) of the Lord shining like stars on a crystal-clear night.

We are the shining stars of the Creator, measuring maturity by the fullness of Christ.. God uses disciples who reflect and shine like Christ to change the world, to turn it upside down.

How in this world does such a heavenly transformation occur?

• Centers on His work ( in )  us and not on our work (for   ) Him.

 

Peter, one of those early shining-star world changers explained:

 

“His divine power has given us everything required for life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and goodness. By these He has given us very great and precious promises, so that through them you may share in the divine nature, escaping the corruption that is in the world because of evil desires” (2 Pet. 1:3-4).