The victory of a humble warrior
For it has been granted to you that for the sake of Christ you should not only believe in him...
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Tag: disciple-making
Is calling for obedience the same as legalism?
Obedience to what Jesus has commanded seems to be the missing ingredient in most Western churches. When obedience is emphasized, the teachers are criticized as teaching legalism. The Apostle Paul soundly condemns legalism in his letter to the Galatians.
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Jesus approach to making disciples
We know that to get the kind of results Jesus got, we must do the work the same way Jesus did. For anyone who has carefully studied how Jesus made disciples, it is evident that the vast bulk of the church is not following Jesus as a disciple-maker.
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How to guarantee people will come to Jesus
Isaiah prophesied, “And they will all be taught by God.” Jesus picks up on this truth to instruct his disciples on what must occur for someone to come to Jesus. Jesus taught them that they could not do what was necessary to bring anyone to Jesus. It applies to us as well. We cannot do anything to make someone believe the gospel.
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Start small, dream big
Matthew 13 might be called the Kingdom chapter. It contains nothing but parables about the Kingdom of God. It includes the Parable of the Sower, the Parable of the Weeds, the Mustard Seed and the Leaven parables, the Parable of Hidden Treasure, the Pearl of Great Price, and the Parable of the Net.
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We are all a bunch of leaky buckets
A Biblical Christian life is a Spirit-filled life. I found a new word that I will probably over-use, but hey, who cares? The word is pneumatocracy. Pneuma is the Greek word for spirit. The “tocracy” part has to do with ruling. We use it in words like Theocracy and democracy. So, a pneumatocracy means to be ruled by the Spirit. That is what we all should strive for. Paul commands it.
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