In this sermon series, I am hoping to lift up a Biblically faithful overview and description of what it looks like to follow Jesus as a disciple. I am basing this series off of John 1:35-2:11. In this text I believe we see three things take place that are paradigmatic for discipleship:

Disciples follow Jesus into the world (not out of it) for the glory of God.

Below is my outline for this sermon series on how we follow Jesus – individually and communally.

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• Good morning LP
  • Response
  • Prayer
  • Offering
    • BTW: Steven Ministries – Coffee next week
• Set Up Series – We are revisiting the biblical picture of discipleship, of following Jesus.
  • Last week.
  • In two weeks
  • Today – What do it look like to follow Jesus?
• Read John
  • Rabbinical Education
• Recap:
  • Disciples follow Jesus
  • Disciples lead others to follow Jesus
• Second big principle: Followers of Jesus gather other Jesus followers, who gather other Jesus followers, who gather other Jesus followers, who gather other Jesus followers, who gather other Jesus followers . . .
  • Example: We get individual, autonomous discipleship.  We neglect communal discipleship.  Followship is a team sport. 

• Bible Support Passages
  • Matthew 28:18-20
  • 2 Tim 2:2
    • Extended Example: Can I take off my pastoral hat now and speak as a church historian, would yall permit me to do that? Trotman, Paul, Timothy. Descriptions
      • American’s tend to value the timothy experience, not the Paul one.  We tend to gravitate towards being young, looking young, feeling young, and even in our spirituality.
      • Here is the net result, and tell me if this sounds familiar.
  • Recap: Followship is a team sport.  Jesus leads Pauls to make timothys, who become pauls who make timothys, who become pauls . . .
• Let me make some application: I will anticipate three common concerns to this vision of followship, and let me address them in closing.
  • I don’t have enough time
  • I don’t have enough knowledge
  • I don’t have a story worth telling.
• Monica, Brad, Doug