We need to be disciples of Jesus before we do anything. A simple challenge to be and make disciples, showing that one life can be vital when surrendered into the hands of the Living God.

1. Living the Life

2. “Our greatest fear should
not be of failure, but of
succeeding at something
that doesn’t really matter.”

7. What is the church
meant to
produce?

8. Matt 28:18-20As Jesus was about
to return to heaven he issued a
command to his followers,
And Jesus came and said to them,
“All authority in heaven and on
earth has been given to me.

9. 19 Go therefore and make disciples of all
nations, baptizing them in the name of
the Father and of the Son and of the
Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe
all that I have commanded you.And
behold, I am with you always, to the
end of the age.”

11. How do you understand
this command.
What have you done to
obey it?

13. Disciples of
Jesus Christ

14. What is your life
worth?

15. What does it take to
buy your life?

16. Success, significance,
money, family, friends,
popularity,
possessions...

18. “Our greatest fear should
not be of failure, but of
succeeding at
something that doesn’t
really matter.”

19. [Jesus] said to all, "If anyone
would come after me, let him
deny himself and take up his
cross daily and follow me.
24For whoever would save his
life will lose it,

20. but whoever loses his life for
my sake will save it. 25 For
what does it profit a man if he
gains the whole world and
loses or forfeits himself?
Luke 9:23-25

21. What is the best way
to see the world won
for Jesus Christ?

22. What is the best way
to make disciples of
Christ?

26. Year Disciple
-ship
Crusade
Assuming
evangelistic
crusades
win 10,000
people per
day
Assuming
one disciple
makes one
other
disciple per
year

27. Year Disciple
-ship
Crusade
Assuming
evangelistic
crusades
win 10,000
people per
day
Assuming
one disciple
makes one
other
disciple per
year
Which would you choose?

28. Year Disciple
-ship
Crusade
1 1 3,650000
2 2 7,300000
3 4 10,095000
4 8 14,600000
5 16 18,250000
6 32 21,900000
7 64 25,550000
8 128 29,200000
9 256 32,850000

29. Year Disciple
-ship
Crusade
19 262,144 69,350000
20 524,288 73,000000
21 1,048,576 76,650000
22 2,097,152 80,300000
23 4,194,304 83,950000
24 8,388,608 87,600000

30. Year Disciple
-ship
Crusade
19 262,144 69,350000
20 524,288 73,000000
21 1,048,576 76,650000
22 2,097,152 80,300000
23 4,194,304 83,950000
24 8,388,608 87,600000
Note the gap - now on year 19

31. 28 134,217728 102,200000
Year Disciple
-ship
Crusade
29 268,435,456 105,850000
30 536,870,912 109,500000
25 16,777216 91,250000

32. 28 134,217728 102,200000
Year Disciple
-ship
Crusade
29 268,435,456 105,850000
30 536,870,912 109,500000
25 16,777216 91,250000
Note the gap - now on year 28

33. 32
2,147,483,648 116,800000
Year Disciple
-ship
Crusade
33 4,294,967,296 120,450000
34 124,100000

34. 32
2,147,483,648 116,800000
Year Disciple
-ship
Crusade
33 4,294,967,296 120,450000
34 8,589,934592 124,100000

35. 32
2,147,483,648 116,800000
Year Disciple
-ship
Crusade
33 4,294,967,296 120,450000
34 8,589,934592 124,100000

36. One committed
person makes a
difference

39. In the New Testament
what is the most
popular name for the
followers of Jesus?

41. Christian - 3 times
Saint - 63 times
Disciple - 269
times
“The NT is a book about
disciples, by disciples, and
for disciples of Jesus Christ”
Dallas Willard

42. A disciple is an
apprentice.
A person who is learning
from a skilled employer

43. “Our greatest fear should
not be of failure, but of
succeeding at something
that doesn’t really matter.”

44. Think about Jesus…
90% of his ministry
was to 12 Jews
Why?

45. Because it was the BEST
way to reach all of India,
Bhutan, China, Pakistan
and the rest of the world!

46. NO! It was the
ONLY way to reach
them

48. Robert Morrison

49. Missionary to China, Sept 1807

50. Hostile officials and foreign merchants

51. Hostile officials and foreign merchants
Baptized the first
Chinese Protestant
Christian, Cai Gao, on
July 16, 1814

52. Baptized the first
Chinese Protestant
Christian, Cai Gao, on
July 16, 1814

55. Communists took
over in 1949,
900,000 Protestants

56. Today > 111,000,000
Christians in China,
90% Protestant,
mostly Pentecostal.

57. China is the 3rd
largest ‘Christian’
country on earth

58. Estimate in 2050
218,000,000
Christians in China

59. 16% of the population.
10,000 conversions in
China every day.

60. Investing time and
energy in making
disciples is always
worthwhile

62. “Preparation for revival is like
building a dam ahead of the rain.
Even though we really desire a
downpour to quench the drought,
if we don’t build a dam, we shall
not keep that rain.

63. If God showers down revival and
individual ministries and
churches are not ready to accept it,
then all the blessings of revival
will be wasted.”
David Yonggi Cho

64. “Our greatest fear should
not be of failure, but of
succeeding at something
that doesn’t really matter.”

65. Why make Disciples?

67. 1. The Example of
Jesus

69. John 15:15
No longer do I call you servants,
for the servant does not know
what his master is doing; but I
have called you friends, for all
that I have heard from my Father
I have made known to you.

70. Peter became one of
Jesus’ closest friends

71. 2. Obedience to
Jesus

72. 2. Obedience to
Jesus

73. Jesus believed in the
disciples and saw
their potential

74. 3. Effectiveness

75. Discipleship is God’s
chosen strategy to
reach the world

76. 4. Mature Disciples

77. How would you know a
Christian is mature?
What do they say and do?

78. Your relationship with God
is what you give to others.
Discipling others is about
example.

79. “Who wants your
life?”

80. The End

81. Maturity looks like…

82. 1. Fruitfulness in our
service for God
Jn 15:5, Matt. 25:14 – 30

83. 2. Humility
John 13:12–17

84. 3. Do everything to
the glory of God
Col 3:17, 23

85. 4. A close
relationship with
Jesus (Galatians 2:20)

86. 5. The fruit of the
Spirit in our lives
(Gal 5:22–23)

87. 6. A stable, consistent
and holy walk before God
and man (Eph 4:11–16)

88. 7. A solid knowledge of
God’s Word and
discernment as a result
(Hebrews 5:13–6:2)

89. And we’re done!