Growing Together: Our Path to Discipleship
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### Quotes for Outreach
1. "We were buried, we were dead, but you called our name and came alive. His alone, He alone satisfies. Our heart belongs to Him. We want Him to have all of our affections, our life, everything. Let's continue in worship this morning as we take up our offering. I encourage you to let this continue to be a time of worship. Worship, let this continue to be a time responding to Him. All that we do in response to what God has done for us is worship to Him. Everything that we do for His glory, we want to bring Him glory. That is our desire." [54:16]
2. "If we came to Him for salvation, and we need Him for everything, because salvation is our greatest need, everything else, we need Him as well. All the more. In 11 Romans, that reminder raises that God graciously has given us His Son. How will He not, along with Him, graciously give us all things? God will take care of us. He's given us Jesus. He's given us salvation. And surely, through Him, we have all that we need. So we surrender to Him. Because we believe His way is best. And we believe He will give us all we need." [56:19]
3. "We exist to make mature, multiplying disciples of Jesus in our community, country, and world for the glory of God. This purpose is rooted in the Great Commission and involves a clear path: Celebrate, Connect, Grow, and Go. Each step is designed to help us grow in our faith and fulfill our mission as followers of Christ." [01:13:54]
4. "We want to be a body that is building and growing and doing what you've called us to do. So help us and show us that today. We ask in the name of Jesus. Amen." [01:06:03]
5. "We desire to see every single person here making disciples so that one day we can walk up to you and say, 'Hey, who are you discipling?' And you'd be able to list off the people that you're discipling that you're pouring into. We want to see that because we want to, we want to see Jesus made known in our community, country, and world for the glory of God." [01:36:23]
### Quotes for Members
1. "Maturity guards us against wavering in circumstances and wallowing in false doctrines. If you look at verse 14, the way that Paul, the illustration he gives, we may no longer be children tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, human cunning and craftiness and deceitfulness. It brings to mind like a ship or a person maybe afloat on a piece of shipwreck going back and forth and being tossed around by everything, right? And so that's what can happen to us." [01:11:37]
2. "We believe everyone needs to be involved in a connect group. Whether you are young or old, single or married, wherever you're at in life. Everyone needs these kinds of relationships because God uses the closeness of that relationship powerfully in the lives of those involved. I mean, we all understand this simple principle, right? Genuine fellowship isn't practical in a crowd this size, right? Who in here knows everyone else in this room 100%? Okay. I didn't think so. Cool." [01:30:08]
3. "Grow groups intentionally teach a person to become a multiplying disciple, a multiplying disciple, right? That's a disciple maker and the grow group consists of three to five people who faithfully meet for roughly 12 to 36 months to mature in their faith and learn how to make disciples at the end of a grow group because they have an end date. Then those people multiply each member goes and finds three to five other people to invite into a new group." [01:33:09]
4. "We believe disciples of Jesus need to connect with smaller groups of believers to grow in maturity and learn how to become a multiplying disciple. And so that leads to our next step, the second step on our path, which is connect. Connect. Connect. What is connect? Connect is connecting in smaller groups of community, which we call connect groups." [01:27:41]
5. "We want to be fully grown in our relationship with God. And fully grown, but what does that maturity look like? What does that fully grown look like? The awesome thing is he lays it out, right? What is the standard of maturity? What's the measure of maturity? It's the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, right? Have you ever been to a theme park? It says you must be this tall to ride. And then you weren't able to ride maybe, right? If you've ever been there, it's all right. You've got scars. Well, Jesus is our measure. Jesus is our standard. And all of us, our goal is to grow into, to be like Jesus, the fullness of Christ. To be like him in every way, right? A mature person ought to look like Jesus." [01:09:52]
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1. "We were buried, we were dead, but you called our name and came alive. His alone, He alone satisfies. Our heart belongs to Him. We want Him to have all of our affections, our life, everything. Let's continue in worship this morning as we take up our offering. I encourage you to let this continue to be a time of worship. Worship, let this continue to be a time responding to Him. All that we do in response to what God has done for us is worship to Him. Everything that we do for His glory, we want to bring Him glory. That is our desire." [54:16]
2. "If we came to Him for salvation, and we need Him for everything, because salvation is our greatest need, everything else, we need Him as well. All the more. In 11 Romans, that reminder raises that God graciously has given us His Son. How will He not, along with Him, graciously give us all things? God will take care of us. He's given us Jesus. He's given us salvation. And surely, through Him, we have all that we need. So we surrender to Him. Because we believe His way is best. And we believe He will give us all we need." [56:19]
3. "We exist to make mature, multiplying disciples of Jesus in our community, country, and world for the glory of God. This purpose is rooted in the Great Commission and involves a clear path: Celebrate, Connect, Grow, and Go. Each step is designed to help us grow in our faith and fulfill our mission as followers of Christ." [01:13:54]
4. "We want to be a body that is building and growing and doing what you've called us to do. So help us and show us that today. We ask in the name of Jesus. Amen." [01:06:03]
5. "We desire to see every single person here making disciples so that one day we can walk up to you and say, 'Hey, who are you discipling?' And you'd be able to list off the people that you're discipling that you're pouring into. We want to see that because we want to, we want to see Jesus made known in our community, country, and world for the glory of God." [01:36:23]
### Quotes for Members
1. "Maturity guards us against wavering in circumstances and wallowing in false doctrines. If you look at verse 14, the way that Paul, the illustration he gives, we may no longer be children tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, human cunning and craftiness and deceitfulness. It brings to mind like a ship or a person maybe afloat on a piece of shipwreck going back and forth and being tossed around by everything, right? And so that's what can happen to us." [01:11:37]
2. "We believe everyone needs to be involved in a connect group. Whether you are young or old, single or married, wherever you're at in life. Everyone needs these kinds of relationships because God uses the closeness of that relationship powerfully in the lives of those involved. I mean, we all understand this simple principle, right? Genuine fellowship isn't practical in a crowd this size, right? Who in here knows everyone else in this room 100%? Okay. I didn't think so. Cool." [01:30:08]
3. "Grow groups intentionally teach a person to become a multiplying disciple, a multiplying disciple, right? That's a disciple maker and the grow group consists of three to five people who faithfully meet for roughly 12 to 36 months to mature in their faith and learn how to make disciples at the end of a grow group because they have an end date. Then those people multiply each member goes and finds three to five other people to invite into a new group." [01:33:09]
4. "We believe disciples of Jesus need to connect with smaller groups of believers to grow in maturity and learn how to become a multiplying disciple. And so that leads to our next step, the second step on our path, which is connect. Connect. Connect. What is connect? Connect is connecting in smaller groups of community, which we call connect groups." [01:27:41]
5. "We want to be fully grown in our relationship with God. And fully grown, but what does that maturity look like? What does that fully grown look like? The awesome thing is he lays it out, right? What is the standard of maturity? What's the measure of maturity? It's the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, right? Have you ever been to a theme park? It says you must be this tall to ride. And then you weren't able to ride maybe, right? If you've ever been there, it's all right. You've got scars. Well, Jesus is our measure. Jesus is our standard. And all of us, our goal is to grow into, to be like Jesus, the fullness of Christ. To be like him in every way, right? A mature person ought to look like Jesus." [01:09:52]
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