Disciple
Characteristics of Jesus-Followers
Disciple-followers of Jesus
1. Becoming Jesus-Followers
2. Disciple (the Noun) – Characteristics
3. Disciple (the Verb) – Doing it!
4. Disciple-making Communities
A disciple is not above the teacher,
nor a servant above his lord;
It is enough for the disciple that he
becomes like his teacher, and the
servant like his lord.
Matt 10.24-25
Characteristics of
Jesus-Followers
1. Becoming
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Becoming like the Teacher
It is enough that…!
Characteristics of
Jesus-Followers
Now great crowds accompanied him, and he turned and said to them,
"If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother
and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own
life, he cannot be my disciple.
Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me cannot be my
disciple.
For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and
count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it?
Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish, all
who see it begin to mock him,
saying, 'This man began to build and was not able to finish.’
Or what king, going out to encounter another king in war, will not sit
down first and deliberate whether he is able with ten thousand to
meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand?
And if not, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends a
delegation and asks for terms of peace.
So therefore, any one of you who does not renounce all that he has
cannot be my disciple.
(Luke 14:25-33)
1. Becoming
2. Dying
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Dying to Self-n-Stuff
Characteristics of
Jesus-Followers
As he was saying these things, many believed in him.
So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him,
"If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples,
and you will know the truth, and the truth will set
you free.”
They answered him, "We are offspring of Abraham
and have never been enslaved to anyone. How is it
that you say, 'You will become free'?”
Jesus answered them, "Truly, truly, I say to you,
everyone who practices sin is a slave to sin…
So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.
(John 8:30-36)
1. Becoming
2. Dying
3. Living
Characteristics of
Jesus-Followers
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Living in His Logos
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The Truth sets you free!
By this my Father is glorified, that
you bear much fruit and so prove
to be my disciples.
(John 15:8)
Characteristics of
Jesus-Followers
1. Becoming
2. Dying
3. Living
4. Fruit-Bearing
Characteristics of
Jesus-Followers
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Fruit, more fruit, much fruit
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Fruit that will last!
By this, all people will know that
you are my disciples, if you have
love for one another."
(John 13:35)
Characteristics of
Jesus-Followers
1. Becoming
2. Dying
3. Living
4. Fruit-Bearing
Characteristics of
Jesus-Followers
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Fruit, more fruit, much fruit
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Fruit that will last!
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Love!!
"He who receives you receives Me,
and he who receives Me receives
Him who sent Me.
"He who receives a prophet in the
name of a prophet shall receive a
prophet's reward; and he who
receives a righteous man in the
name of a righteous man shall
receive a righteous man's reward.
Characteristics
of
"And whoever in the name of a
disciple gives to one of these little
Jesus-Followers
ones even a cup of cold water to
drink, truly I say to you, he shall
not lose his reward."
(Mat 10:39-42)
1. Becoming
2. Dying
3. Living
4. Fruit-Bearing
Characteristics of
Jesus-Followers
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Fruit, more fruit, much fruit
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Love!
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Welcoming the ‘little ones’
1. Becoming
2. Dying
3. Living
4. Fruit-Bearing
Characteristics of
Jesus-Followers
Characteristics of Jesus-Followers
1. Becoming like Jesus
2. Dying to Self-n-Stuff
3. Living in His Logos
4. Bearing much Fruit
Living
in His
Logos
Becoming
like
Bearing
Fruit
More Fruit
Much Fruit
Lasting Fruit
Dying
to
Self-Stuff
Bearing
Much
Fruit
Dying to Self-Stuff
Living in His Logos
Disciple
Characteristics of Jesus-Followers