Introduction
- Share about the visitors you most recently brought to church or Bible Talk.
- Ask the young disciple about their evangelism.
- Jesus' Mission
- Luke 19:10
- 1 Timothy 1:15
- Matthew 28:19-20
- Acts 20:24
- What was Jesus' mission?
- What is each disciple's mission?
- Disciples' Mission
- John 15:1-16
- Glorifying God in John 15 is bearing the fruit of making disciples, not simply baptizing. (Matthew 28:19 commands us to "go and make disciples;" John 15:16 commands us to "go and bear fruit that will last."
- To bear fruit, one must be "in the vine," otherwise we will be cut off.
- Jesus is the perfect discipler, but He is also the perfect disciple of God.
- To love God is to obey His commands. Discipling helps our hearts to want to obey His commands (Matthew 28:20). Therefore, we must love one another, even to the point of laying down our lives for each other.
- The Book of Acts records the 30 years from the beginning of the church on the day of Pentecost to Paul's arrival in Rome — signaling that the gospel has gone to the known world. The church in the first century was a movement. Discuss the growth of the first century church when all Christians were striving to be fruitful — making disciples.
- Acts 2:41
- Acts 2:47
- Acts 4:4
- Acts 5:14
- Acts 6:1
- Acts 6:7
- Acts 8:4
- Acts 9:31
- Acts 11:21
- Acts 12:24
- Acts 13:49
- Acts 14:1
- Acts 14:21
- Acts 16:5
- Acts 17:4
- Acts 17:6 (RSV): "These men who have turned the world upside-down have come here also..."
- Colossians 1:6, 23: The known world was evangelized by 61 A.D., in a generation! Paul is in prison when he writes Colossians — Acts 28. Therefore, Jesus' vision became a reality — "the evangelization of the nations in a generation!"
- Discuss and pray for:
- World Evangelism
- Missions Teams
- Your Kingdom dreams... how can you use your talents for God?