gospel identity: disciplemaker who you are determines what you do

Gospel Identity: DisciplemakerWho you are determines what you do

Gospel = Good News!

It is one thing to know the gospel.

It is another thing to experience gospel daily in way that changes us and becomes source of identity and security

Gospel Prayer1. In Christ, there is nothing I can do that would

make You love me more, and nothing I have done that makes You love me less.

2. Your presence and approval are all I need for everlasting joy.

3. As You have been to me, so I will be to others.

4. As I pray, I’ll measure Your compassion by the cross and Your power by the resurrection.

Identity

Who you are determines what you do

Matthew 28:16-20Then the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go. 17 When they saw him, they worshiped him; but some doubted. 18 Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”

You cannot be My disciple unless…

John 8:31-32John 15:7-8

John 13:34-35Luke 9:23

Luke 14:26-27Luke 14:28-33

John 8:31-32

“Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.”—Matt. 4:4

…cleansing her by the washing with water through the word… (Eph. 5:25-27)

“The Bible will keep you from sin…

…or sin will keep you from the Bible.”—D.L. Moody

John 15:7-8

John 13:34-35

Luke 9:23

Luke 14:26-27

Luke 14:28-33

Very truly I tell you, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds… (Jn 12:24-26)

YEARS TO REACH PURDUE WITH GOSPEL(start with 20 who lead 2 to Christ, disciple, etc.)

YEARS TO REACH PURDUE WITH GOSPEL(start with 20 who lead 2 to Christ, disciple, etc.)

Year 1 60

YEARS TO REACH PURDUE WITH GOSPEL(start with 20 who lead 2 to Christ, disciple, etc.)

Year 1 60

Year 2 180

YEARS TO REACH PURDUE WITH GOSPEL(start with 20 who lead 2 to Christ, disciple, etc.)

Year 1 60

Year 2 180

Year 3 540

YEARS TO REACH PURDUE WITH GOSPEL(start with 20 who lead 2 to Christ, disciple, etc.)

Year 1 60

Year 2 180

Year 3 540

Year 4 1620

YEARS TO REACH PURDUE WITH GOSPEL(start with 20 who lead 2 to Christ, disciple, etc.)

Year 1 60

Year 2 180

Year 3 540

Year 4 1620

Year 5 4860

YEARS TO REACH PURDUE WITH GOSPEL(start with 20 who lead 2 to Christ, disciple, etc.)

Year 1 60

Year 2 180

Year 3 540

Year 4 1620

Year 5 4860

Year 6 14580

YEARS TO REACH PURDUE WITH GOSPEL(start with 20 who lead 2 to Christ, disciple, etc.)

Year 1 60

Year 2 180

Year 3 540

Year 4 1620

Year 5 4860

Year 6 14580

Year 7 43740

Are you merely a Boilermaker?

Or are you a disciple maker?

Spiritual DNA replication

You will reproduce who you are, not what you want others to become.

DNA groups

Discipleship – Word, Gospel fluency, missionNurture – emotional needs/friendsAccountability – Christlikeness

What are you replicating?

• Revelation of Word? Hear God’s voice?• Fruitful prayer life w/regular answers?• Experience love of Father & love others?• Die to self daily?• Left everything to follow Jesus (like a marriage)? • Counted cost first instead of living by feelings?• Does anything own you?• Who are your Paul, Barnabus, and Timothy?