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HEALTHY CHURCH: 5+1 Discipleship Spaces
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Disciples are followers and imitators of the one they are following. A disciple of Jesus Christ is someone who is being with Jesus (relational), becoming like Jesus (transformational) and doing what Jesus did and is doing (commissional). The church is to be a gathering of disciples who are “the people of God, saved by the power of God, filled with the presence of God, for the purpose of God.” Unfortunately, it is far too easy to focus only on those already coming and become ...
HEALTHY CHURCH: Discipleship Through Imitation
The apostle Paul focused on “living out” what you say you believe about God and what you have been taught. Paul understood what it meant to be an apprentice under someone more skilled, experienced or knowledgeable than him as a tentmaker, a Pharisee and even as a part of a missionary team (Barnabas). Paul learned from them, then immediately began discipling others through imitation....