Missional Discipleship

Missional Discipleship
RightNow Conference
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Romans 8:29

For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

Mission
- we are to look more like Jesus Christ


Missional Discipleship

Major obstacles
1. Unhealthy individuality ( Prov. 18:1 )
2. Renegade philosophy of life ( Titus 1:10 )
3. Frustration with the local church
4. Unhealthy expectations of discipleship
5. Discipleship Idolatry ( 1 Cor 1 )
6. Unhealthy expectations of the discipler
7. Unclear definition of discipleship (how do we make disciples)
8. Reductionistic view of discipleship
9. Many pastors have never really experienced ( true discipleship )
10. Not an emphasis in many churches

A disciple of Jesus Christ is one who has renounced him/herself and has pledged their life to being in a lifetime apprenticeship to The Lord Jesus Christ ( Matt 10:39 )

Missional defined:
The identity of the people of God by which we live out our nature as God's ambassadors to the world in which we join Him inHis effort to reach people

Discipleship has to be:

From the inside out

1. Develop a Christian Worldview ( 1 Cor 2:14-16 )
- how do we do this?

---- spiritual formation
a. regeneration
b. prayer
c. Biblical assimilation
d. redemptive community

---- Biblical theology
a. implantation (James 1:21 )
b. transformation ( Romans 12:1-2 )
c. discernment ( 1 Cor 2:15 )

---- practical ministry
a. missional ( Col 4:2-6 )
b. application ( Heb 5:14 )
c. reproduction ( Matt 28: 18-20 )