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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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
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