DiscipleSHIFT (Study Guide)

I gotta hit hard because I want a church full of disciples of Jesus Christ. Who in your life is closer to God? Because you're in their life. You are helping to make them a follower of Jesus. And as I close, Jesus gives them what they needed, and I think it's what we all need when we hear a word that is as challenging as this is from our lord. He says, and I will be with you. You won't go alone. [00:31:06] (56 seconds)  #GlobalMissionForAll

Jesus begins by showing that he has the authority to teach but back it up, what he's showing is that that then gives you the authority over your own life, over the own plank in your own eye. Before you speak to somebody else, make sure you check your own vision first. Before you speak life into someone else, make sure there's still some life in you. As a matter of fact, I put it this way, you have to receive life before you can give life. You have to receive life before you can give life. [00:10:33] (43 seconds)  #GodTransformsLeaders

Because God's authority shows up first to go to work in my life. That's why Jesus is showing up the disciples because he's got to transform them in order to use them to transform others. Yeah. There are other areas that need attention. We are going to address social inequities, economic disparities, and political depravity But before we can correct others, we have to be that which we want to see. I know this to be true for myself because I don't think the same way I used to think, talk the same way I used to talk. [00:12:24] (41 seconds)  #DisciplesMakeDisciples

That's why it's important to know your history and heritage because you'll think you got a new vision when really you're just building on to what God started generations before you showed up. And the work will continue generations after you and I are gone. Lord, I'm supposed to be closing. Let me try to figure out how to close this thing. He says, go. Therefore therefore, since you have the authority That's right. Go to all nations. But that means as you go to all nations and you teach them what I taught you that you make disciples, that you develop, that you cultivate disciples, is that you've gotta be a disciple first. [00:22:42] (61 seconds)  #GodsVisionEndures

Do you know how fragile your faith has to be to where you can see Jesus resurrected with all power before you and you still have doubt? Their expectations have been shattered and their hearts struggle to discern what is true and what's a lie. The disciples were not okay. Disciples were told by the women who had already received the message of his resurrection and to meet Jesus. And although they did not believe them, some at least they still showed up to meet him. [00:03:14] (34 seconds)  #PresenceInAllSeasons

And if we're honest, many of us are exhausted at just trying to exist. Living right now seems exhausting. Simple just isn't simple anymore, is it? Easy has become hard. Everyone is name calling and pointing fingers while the ground beneath us is unstable. The disciples were not okay. And many of us, if we're honest, are not okay. This is why Jesus greets them the way he does. [00:06:21] (40 seconds)  #ResurrectionReigns

Jesus is coming to them after his death, burial, and resurrection and saying that same promise that was given to Joseph and Mary who was scared about the new vision that God had given them is now the realization that you get to live with wherever you go, Whatever hardship you face. Whatever grief captures your heart. I am with you. Always means when things are good and when things are bad. Always means when your health is healthing and when your body's aching. [00:32:29] (47 seconds)  #JesusAllAuthority

But he's taken that same power and said, if you are my disciple, I have given you. That's why out of the mouth speaks life and death because you've got power that has been given to you by God. It's authority. This means that Jesus is all authority. He is ruler and lord of heaven and earth. He is the king of the present and coming kingdom. His resurrection was his enthronement. [00:15:17] (33 seconds)  #OwnYourStruggle