1. What is God saying to us?

2. Why the Bible? The primary purpose of the word of God is to personally hear from God.

3. What is God saying to us? I.Part One – The Kickoff

4. Eternal

5. Ecclesiastes 3:11 11 He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.

6. We are eternal beings trying to be filled by temporal things.

8. What is God saying to us? I.Part One – The Kickoff Blessed....

9. What is God saying to us? I.Part One – The Kickoff II.Part Two – The Game

10. Discipleship isn’t something we do to people as much as it’s something we are with them. It’s the process of getting close enough to people to share your life by example. Robert Nielsen

11. We don’t comprehend how much God loves us.

12. What is God saying to us? I.Part One – The Kickoff II.Part Two – The Game III.Part Three - Overtime

13. Matthew 28:18-20 18 Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 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, 20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”

14. Matthew 28:18-20 18 Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 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, 20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”

15. God has left us here on earth -- for what? To be saved and sanctified? No, to be at it for him. Oswald Chambers My Utmost for His Highest February 15

16. If you were responsible to teach and train a new Christian would you know exactly what to do to maximize the chances that this new Christian would reach maturity? Grant Edwards First Steps

17. Acts 4:13 13 When they saw the courage of Peter and John and realized that they were unschooled, ordinary men, they were astonished and they took note that these men had been with Jesus.

18. Unschooled Strong's Concordance idiótés: a private or unskilled person Original Word: ἰδιώτης, ου, ὁ Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: idiótés Phonetic Spelling: (id-ee-o'-tace) Short Definition: an amateur, layman Definition: (unofficial, hence) an amateur, an unprofessional man, a layman; an ungifted person.

19. Two Questions 1.Who do I disciple? 2.How do I make disciples?

20. We are all just unschooled idiots, looking for eternal happiness.