A Disciple-Making Community

You teach what you know, but you reproduce who you are.
— Howard Hendricks

Bottom Line‍

God wants us to become a disciple-making community.

There’s nothing wrong with the church that discipleship can’t fix.
— Dallas Willard

Matthew 28:18-20‍

Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”‍

Matthew 28:19

Therefore go and make disciples of all nations…‍

A disciple is someone who is learning from Jesus how to be like Jesus by doing life with Jesus.‍

Matthew 28:18

Jesus said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.”‍

Matthew 28:19-20‍

Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 2and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you.‍

#ActionSteps

• Do you have the posture or a learner or an expert? 
• Where have you outsourced Jesus’ authority in your life?  
• How is God inviting you to go beyond knowing to embodying?
• Who could you ask to invest in you as a disciple?  Who could you invest in as a disciple?