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Ben Marquez Director of Discipleship bmarquez@eastminster 316.737.6383

Welcome. Ben Marquez Director of Discipleship bmarquez@eastminster.org 316.737.6383. Reminder 1) The Church Exists to Make Disciples 2) The Goal of Discipleship is Conformity to Christ 3) Discipleship is Costly 4) All of Us Participate in Making Disciples. Last Week’s Recap

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Ben Marquez Director of Discipleship bmarquez@eastminster 316.737.6383

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  1. Welcome Ben Marquez Director of Discipleship bmarquez@eastminster.org 316.737.6383

  2. Reminder 1) The Church Exists to Make Disciples 2) The Goal of Discipleship is Conformity to Christ 3) Discipleship is Costly 4) All of Us Participate in Making Disciples

  3. Last Week’s Recap Disciples Reproduce Who They Are Jesus’ Disciples must: Show Mercy Forgive Others Not Condemn Not Judge

  4. Last Week’s Recap Disciples Reproduce Who They Are A disciple is not above his teacher, but every disciple when he is fully trained will be like his teacher. Luke 6:40

  5. Next Week Disciples Confess and Repent Without confession I will remain unforgiven—not because God doesn’t forgive, but because a refusal to confess is a rejection of forgiveness. Refusing to confess, I refuse to make forgiveness my own through confession of wrongdoing and joyful gratitude over it not being counted against me. MiroslavVolf

  6. Week 3 Disciples Keep the Gospel Central “If the message of the gospel does not dwell with power in us it cannot pass with power from us.” John Owen

  7. Sadly, even tragically, evangelicals have sometimes been guilty of preaching and teaching a Gospel that is not, shall we say, "fully dressed."' They may have focused properly on the central features of God's atoning work at the cross, faithfully preached Christ crucified for sinners, celebrated the resurrection as proof that Christ's self -offering for our sins has been accepted, and urged hearers to be reconciled to God. In other words, they have been right about the essence of the Gospel; the key facts have been there in what they have said. But at the same time they have missed some of the critical implications and applications of the Gospel for daily living. Gary Parrett;J.I. Packer. Grounded in the Gospel: Building Believers the Old-Fashioned Way

  8. When we fail to conduct ourselves "in step with the truth of the Gospel" (Gal. 2:14), we are in serious error. We are to live in such a way as to make the teaching about God our Savior attractive to our neighbors (Titus 2:10) and to win their respect by responsible and godly living (1 Thess. 4:11-12). Thus our preaching and teaching of the Gospel-that is, our ministries of catechesis-must include teaching the godly manner of living that accords with the sound doctrines of the Gospel (Titus 2:1). Gary Parrett;J.I. Packer. Grounded in the Gospel: Building Believers the Old-Fashioned Way

  9. Week 3 Disciples Keep the Gospel Central What is the Gospel? 1 Corinthians 15 1Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand, 2and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you—unless you believed in vain. 3For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, 4that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures.

  10. Gospel Summaries in Scripture •"He was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed" (Isa. 53:5) • "God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life" (John 3:16). • "Through Jesus the forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you. Through him everyone who believes is justified from everything you could not be justified from by the Law of Moses" (Acts 13:38-39). • "He was delivered over to death for our sins and was raised to life for our justification" (Rom. 4:25). • Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many people; and he will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for him(Heb. 9:28).

  11. Week 3 Disciples Keep the Gospel Central 1 Corinthians 1:17-25

  12. Week 3 Disciples Keep the Gospel Central 1 Corinthians 1:17-25 17For Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel, and not with words of eloquent wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power.

  13. Week 3 Disciples Keep the Gospel Central 1 Corinthians 1:17-25 18For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. 19For it is written,“I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,andthe discernment of the discerning I will thwart.” 20Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? 21For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe.

  14. Week 3 Disciples Keep the Gospel Central 1 Corinthians 1:17-25 22For Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom, 23but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles, 24but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. 25For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

  15. Western evangelicalism tends to run through cycles of fads. At the moment, books are pouring off the presses telling us how to plan for success, how "vision" consists in clearly articulated "ministry goals," how the knowledge of detailed profiles of our communities constitutes the key to successful outreach. I am not for a moment suggesting that there is nothing to be learned from such studies. But after a while one may perhaps be excused for marveling how many churches were planted by Paul and Whitefield and Wesley and Stanway and Judson without enjoying these advantages. Of course all of us need to understand the people to whom we minister, and all of us can benefit from small doses of such literature. But massive doses sooner or later dilute the gospel. Ever so subtly, we start to think that success more critically depends on thoughtful sociological analysis than on the gospel; Barna becomes more important than the Bible. We depend on plans, programs, vision statements-but somewhere along the way we have succumbed to the temptation to displace the foolishness of the cross with the wisdom of strategic planning. I fear that the cross, without ever being disowned, is constantly in danger of being dismissed from the central place it must enjoy, by relatively peripheral insights that take on far too much weight. Whenever the periphery is in danger of replacing the center, we are not far removed from idolatry. D. A. Carson. The Cross and Christian Ministry: Leadership Lessons from 1 Corinthians

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