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Some Thoughts on Discipleship

Some Thoughts on Discipleship. Day 2. Pier at Seleucia. Some Initial Observations on Acts 13:1-3. Verse 1: Established leadership that believed in emerging leadership. A church that intentionally reflected the fullest expression of the body of Christ.

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Some Thoughts on Discipleship

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  1. Some Thoughts on Discipleship Day 2

  2. Pier at Seleucia

  3. Some Initial Observationson Acts 13:1-3

  4. Verse 1: • Established leadership that believed in emerging leadership. • A church that intentionally reflected the fullest expression of the body of Christ.

  5. Verse 2: A dynamic synergy between the foundational Word and the present tense of the Spirit.

  6. Verse 3: A context of theological reflection that allowed the Holy Spirit and the continuing ministry of Jesus Christ to be increasingly exegeted.

  7. Verse 3: A crucible for Paul’s observation to the Philippians that it was God at work in them to will and to act according to God’s purpose (Phil. 2:3).

  8. Verses 2 and 4-5: An organization that God blessed with a mandate to multiply itself.

  9. Acts 11:19-21 • Defining Moments with Great Implications • The paradigm shift that results in a theological and missiological breakthrough

  10. Luther’s Influence—1517 • When Luther nailed the 95 Theses to the door of the church at Wittenberg he was not a lone voice, but a united faculty speaking.

  11. Luther’s Influence—1520-1560 • 16,000 students matriculated at Wittenberg and were shaped by the tenets of the German Reformation

  12. SO WHAT? • God cares about communities that are organized to serve His redemptive mandate whether they are… • Local churches • Fellowships of churches • Educational institutions like a seminary

  13. Look at Antioch and Wittenberg and see what challenge we can give our attention to at the halfway mark of the first decade in this new millennium.

  14. Our churches are literally the largest in the world, but we live in a world that is described as follows…

  15. “There is no lighthouse keeper. There is no lighthouse. There is no dry land. There are only people living on rafts made from their own imaginations. And there is no sea.” John Dominic Crossan, Catholic University of America

  16. “I don’t believe in truth. I believe in style.” Hugh Grant, British film actor

  17. Antioch faced theological & missional challenges. They rose up to critique the exclusiveness of Jerusalem and expanded the boundary of the Gospel for the first time intentionally.

  18. Wittenberg faced theological and organizational challenges. It stands as a prime mover in an era when religion had atrophied and the church had long forgotten what it meant to say it seemed good to the Spirit and us.

  19. Joining of passionate spirituality and thoroughness in study • Creation of contexts where this synergy could be obvious • Where encounter with God yielded Spirit-guided activity true to the mission of Spirit empowerment

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