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No Sweat Discipleship: An Approach to Fulfilling the Great Commission

Discover the simplicity and timelessness of discipleship through balanced alone time with God and tools for mentoring others. This approach helps you fulfill Jesus' command to make disciples of all nations. Emphasizing worship, confession, thanksgiving, and supplication, it provides practical steps for reaching people with the message of Jesus. Biblical encouragement and guidance from Matthew 28:19-20 and other relevant passages enable you to be intentional in sharing the Gospel. Start your journey to effective discipleship today!

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No Sweat Discipleship: An Approach to Fulfilling the Great Commission

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  1. Matthew 28:19-20 Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.

  2. Responses to the Great Commission • “Amen!” • “I think that is exactly what the church should be doing!” “If we aren’t doing that, we aren’t doing what Jesus commanded.”

  3. Problem We say it but don’t do it.

  4. Why? We really don’t know how to do it.

  5. No Sweat Discipleship simple, transferrable, timeless

  6. Two Major Exercises to No Sweat: • A tool to help someone spend a balanced time alone with Jesus. • A tool you can use to disciple another person.

  7. A Balanced Time alone with the Lord: Worship Grow Reach Serve

  8. Worship Grow Reach Serve

  9. Worship:

  10. A stands for adoration

  11. A: Adoration Adoration is praise, admiration, worship, reverence, and respect

  12. Biblical Encouragement Isaiah 6 describes the angels of heaven singing, “Holy, Holy, Holy, is the Lord of hosts.”

  13. Biblical Encouragement Jesus in Matthew 6:9, “Pray, then, in this way: ‘Our Father who is in heaven, hallowed be Your name.’”

  14. A: Adoration Adoration is choosing a name or attribute of God and praising Him for who He is.

  15. C stands for confession

  16. C: Confession Confession is a declaration associated with worship; it is an admission of sin.

  17. C: Confession God

  18. C: Confession God

  19. Biblical encouragement If we say that we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 1 John 1:8-9

  20. Biblical Encouragement “Woe is me, for I am ruined! Because I am a man of unclean lips!” Isaiah 6:5

  21. Biblical Encouragement Search me, O God, and know my heart; try me and know my anxious thoughts; and see if there be any hurtful way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. Psalm 139:23-24

  22. T stands for thanksgiving

  23. T: Thanksgiving Thanksgiving is an expression of gratitude to God.

  24. Biblical Encouragement • Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good; His love endures forever. 1 Chronicles 16:4 • Give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus. 1 Thessalonians 5:18

  25. Biblical Encouragement • And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him. Colossians 3:17

  26. T: Thanksgiving • Thank God for His work in and through the lives of others. • Thank God for His work in and through the circumstances of your life.

  27. S stands for supplication

  28. S: Supplication • Supplication is asking and humbly begging God for something. • Asking for help, deliverance, wisdom, and/or guidance.

  29. Biblical Encouragement • Give us this day our daily bread. Matthew 6:11

  30. Biblical Encouragement • Be anxious for nothing but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. Philippians 4:6

  31. Worship Grow Reach Serve

  32. Worship Grow Reach Serve

  33. We must be intentional about reaching people with the message of Jesus.

  34. “Follow me, and I’ll make you fishers of men.” Matthew 4:19

  35. We are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making an appeal through us; we beg you on behalf of Christ to be reconciled to God. 2 Corinthians 5:20

  36. How can I be intentional about reaching people with the message of Jesus?

  37. Reach: The 4 W’s

  38. WHO?

  39. For the son of Man has come to seek and save that which is lost. Luke 19:10

  40. It is not those who are healthy who need a physician, but those who are sick; I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners. Mark 2:17

  41. Discovering Your Who

  42. Discovering Your Who Live

  43. Discovering Your Who Live Work

  44. Discovering Your Who Live Play Work

  45. Praying for your WHO: • Pray that God would free them from the slavery of sin.

  46. But thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching to which you were committed. Romans 6:17

  47. Praying for your WHO: • Pray that God would free them from the slavery of sin. • Pray that God would remove Satan’s blinding influence.

  48. In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God. 2 Corinthians 4:4

  49. Praying for your WHO: • Pray that God would free them from the slavery of sin. • Pray that God would remove Satan’s blinding influence. • Pray that God would use you as His mouthpiece in that person’s life.

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