Are You A True Disciple Of Jesus? We Are Called To Follow Jesus As Disciples

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CHRIST JESUS LEFT HIS PLAN FOR HIS CHURCH

Please look at our marching orders as a church, given by Christ, just before He went back to Heaven:

Matthew 28:18-20 (NKJV) And Jesus came 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 of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.

When Jesus left the disciples with the plan they were to follow, it was simple:

Go, evangelize, baptize & train. That is the Great Commission. That is God’s plan for Christ’s Church.

That is what God expects us in Christ’s Church to be doing. That is what I like to call Simple Church.

Everyone knew what they were called to do back then at the start. The blessing today is that we have what they were taught. God in His Word has told us what He wants, so we can also confidently know what we are called to do.

Our job is to make disciples; and our motivation is to do that (and everything else) for the glory of God.

A simple reading of the commission of Christ and the record of the response of His disciples, and the early church, would lead us to conclude that back then, almost:

EVERYONE KNEW THEY WERE PART OF THE PLAN

That’s why in January of this year we began to study the current series on the Disciplines, to help focus our calendars, programs, ministries, activities, and public services on the Simple Church plan that Christ laid out.