DISCIPLESHIP SERIES: Getting Started On Your Journey Of Spiritual Growth...
The Great Commission is to make disciples of all nations (Matt. 28: 19-20). Disciple making is a process; a process of building foundations for faith and living. Whether you are dealing with people who want to know more about Jesus, are new to Christianity, or who have been away from God and recently made a decision to reconnect with God and His Church, our role here at The Center for Renewal and Advancement is to break this process up into major progressive and measurable steps. The overall goal is to help your church transform unchurched people and your members into fully functioning followers of Christ
STEPS TO BECOMING A DISCIPLE OF CHRIST
The basis of our discipleship training series is the insight that Christianity or following Christ is a journey. Consequently, our disciple-making approach adopts a 4-part chain of steps that gets to the heart of the Christian faith. It offers great practical keys to living life in relationship with and obedience to Jesus Christ. It is designed to help the unchurched or the believer understand the gospel and the Christian life so as to grow in their faith and to lay a firm foundation that takes them forward into God’s purpose.
Dynamic Empowering
Our discipleship training approach employs a dynamic empowering process that follows the biblical model, which finds its classical expression in the Jesus paradigm. The biblical archetype here is that faithful discipleship manifests in three ways:
- being molded by a biblical pattern,
- being empowered by an experience, and
- being a participant in a community.
In other words, the church has a single purpose, that of discipleship, which consists of three aspects. These three dimensions cannot be sustained in isolation from one another. They must be held together and allowed to interpenetrate if the church is to claim to be “coming after Jesus” and living a life that fulfils its mission.
A Continuum of Faithful Discipleship
Building Foundations For Faith and Living
MODULE 1: Stepping Into The Christian Life
And the disciples were first called Christians in Antioch." -- Acts 11:26.
Not all who call themselves “Christians” are truly following His instructions (I John 2:3-6). The Bible indicates that a true Christian is one who is a follower of Christ in all things. The first of four series, it is designed to help the unchurched or the believer understand the gospel and the Christian life so that they can live effectively for Christ in this fast changing world. The key emphasis here is the disobedience that led to sin through Adam for all of humanity and the justifying grace of God through Jesus Christ. This first series is about understanding the gospel of grace as the foundation of the Christian life and the need to grow and live by this grace in the real world.
MODULE 2: Stepping Into A Deeper Walk With Christ
From the character of Christ will come the conduct of Christ, if we chose to follow Him. What does it take to discover the character of Christ and begin a relationship with Him? This second series is designed to acquaint participants with Christ at a much deeper level and to help them make progress in the adventure of knowing the Christ who desires to know us. “Stepping into a Deeper Walk with Christ” begins with the fundamental knowledge of a God who pursues relationship with us through Christ and desires that each one of us will know Him personally. The goal of this series is that participants will feel the anticipation and excitement to be with and in Him, so that they not only hear His word, but are desirous of acting on His word.