False Assumptions About Becoming a Follower of Jesus Christ
June 21–22, 2008
Speaker: Brian T. Anderson
- Introduction
- “Transforming ordinary people into extraordinary followers of Christ.”
- Matt. 28:18-20 (NAS) 18And Jesus came up and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. 19“Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit,20teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”
- False Assumptions About Discipleship
- Church Attendance
- Heb. 10:25 (LB) “Let us not neglect our church meetings, as some people do, but encourage and warn each other, especially now that the day of his coming back again is drawing near.”
- Tithing and Giving
- Mal. 3:10 (NAS) “Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in My house, and test Me now in this,” says the LORD of hosts, “if I will not open for you the windows of heaven and pour out for you a blessing until it overflows.”
- Prov. 3:9-10 (NAS) 9Honor the LORD from your wealth And from the first of all your produce;10So your barns will be filled with plenty And your vats will overflow with new wine.
- John 14:15 (NAS) “If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.”
- Prov. 11:24-25 (NAS) 24There is one who scatters, and yet increases all the more, and there is one who withholds what is justly due, and yet it results only in want. 25The generous man will be prosperous, and he who waters will himself be watered.
- Doing good works
- Eph. 2:10 (NAS) For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them.
- Gal. 5:13c (NAS) Through love serve one another.
- I Peter 4:10a (NAS) As each one has received a special gift, employ it in serving one another.
- Being right about the Bible all the time.
- John 13:35 (NLT) “By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.”
- Doing and not doing certain things.
- Biblical Discipleship
- Salvation
- John 3:3 (NAS) Jesus answered and said to him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
- To be with Jesus.
- To obey Jesus.
- John 14:15 (NAS) “If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.
- To Love His Body .
- John 13:35 (NAS) “By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.”
- To do His works.
- John 14:12 (NAS) “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do, he will do also; and greater works than these he will do; because I go to the Father.”
- Conclusion
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