Make One | Disciples Who Make Disciples
Have you ever got in trouble for what you THINK?
Typically, I get in trouble for what I SAY or DO.
Matthew 5:21-22; Matthew 5:27-28
Why does it MATTER what we THINK?
Matthew 12:34-35: For out of the ABUNDANCE of the HEART the MOUTH SPEAKS.
The biggest companies in the world know: shaping how we THINK shapes how we ACT.
The Gospels are filled with Jesus RESPONDING to peoples’ THOUGHTS.
Matthew 22:15-22: Give to Caesar what BELONGS to Caesar, and give to God what BELONGS to God.
What does it mean to GIVE TO GOD what BELONGS to God?
Romans 12:1-2: [1] And so, dear brothers and sisters, I plead with you to GIVE YOUR BODIES to God because of all he has done for you. Let them be a LIVING and HOLY sacrifice—the kind he will find acceptable. This is truly the way to worship him. [2] Don’t copy the BEHAVIOR and customs of this world, but let God TRANSFORM you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God’s will for you, which is GOOD and PLEASING and PERFECT.
What we SAY and DO is HOW we make disciples.
Luke 6:39-42: First take the LOG out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take out the SPECK that is in your brother’s eye.
Our CONFESSION is more HELPFUL for making disciples than our ACCUSATION.
1 Timothy 1:15-16: Christ Jesus came into the world to save SINNERS” and I am the WORST of them all.
Every RELATIONSHIP you have is RECIPROCAL. There’s a BACK and FORTH, a GIVE and TAKE.
2 Timothy 1:6-7
What COMES OUT when you are SQUEEZED?
Matthew 15:10-20
But what comes out of the MOUTH proceeds from the HEART…
The TRUTH is SIMPLE, we need PEOPLE.
Acts 2:42–47: And they DEVOTED themselves to the APOSTLES’ TEACHING and the FELLOWSHIP, to the BREAKING OF BREAD and the PRAYERS.
God uses ALL OF US to shape ALL OF US.