1. Discipleship - An introduction
29th April 2018
Discipleship - An introduction

2. Wessex Synod
Walking the Way
What words come to mind when we think of ‘discipleship’?

3. ‘Go and make disciples’
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Calling
General
‘Follow me’
‘Go and make disciples’

4. Calling for all of us To participate in God’s mission
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Calling for all of us
To participate in God’s mission
“There is no significant growth in discipleship apart from participating in his mission to the world’ (Graham Cray)
... and particular ...

5. God may call us to a particular role within the church
Pastoral Flower arranging Children’s work Youth work Church warden Cleaning Licensed Lay Ministry PCC Ordained ministry Music leader

6. God may call us to a particular area of work
Business leader Carer Teacher Parent Nurse Engineer GP Solicitor Retail assistant Local Councillor Web manager Window cleaner

7. Wessex Synod
Learning
What is our style of learning? What helps us? Reading? Conversation and discussion? Seeing - visuals? Doing – being active? Through experience?

8. Growing Grow up – all growing into the likeness of Christ
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Growing
Grow up – all growing into the likeness of Christ
Ephesians 4: 13 ‘until all of us come into the unity of the faith and to the knowledge of the Son of God, to maturity, to the measure of the full stature of Christ’
Grow deeper - in fellowship with each other. Know each others’ gifts and encourage one another.

9. Whole Life ... Personal. The most important commandment
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Personal. The most important commandment
‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul and with all your mind’
Cris Rodgers – this means all of us.
How do we express our discipleship? Heart, head or hands.

10. Whole life ... out there – 7 days a week, wherever we are.
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Whole life ...
out there – 7 days a week,
wherever we are.

11. The journey of discipleship never ends
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The journey of discipleship never ends
a continuous process

12. If this is to happen ...
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we need all to be INTENTIONAL
The challenge for all churches –
How do we make disciples not attenders? (Graham Cray)
Most of the people in our churches are “admirers of Jesus not disciples” (Alan Hirsch)

13. A Plea from Walking the Way living the life of Jesus today
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“We are called to proclaim and embody God’s Kingdom, yet sometimes it seems as if the church has been side-tracked;
over-concerned about maintaining our buildings and institutions, or organising the coffee rota, rather than focusing of the teachings of Jesus and working out what they mean for each of us as we try to live the Jesus way of extravagant love, scandalous grace and radical actions.
It’s time for change … time to walk the way”