³Listen! It’s the voice of someone shouting, “Clear the way through the wilderness for the LORD! Make a straight highway through the wasteland for our God! ⁴Fill in the valleys, and level the mountains and hills. Straighten the curves, and smooth out the rough places. ⁵Then the glory of the LORD will be revealed, and all people will see it together. The LORD has spoken!” —Isaiah 40:3-5 (NLT)

1| LOVE GOD, MORE THAN THE

¹⁴He appointed twelve–designating them apostles–that they might be with him and that he might send them out to preach ¹⁵and to have authority to drive out demons. —Mark 3:14-15 (NIV)

“Come, follow me,” Jesus said, “and I will make you fishers of men.” —Matthew 4:19 (NIV)

A Disciple: One Who

Christ

²³Then he said to all, “Anyone who wants to follow me must put aside his own desires and conveniences and carry his cross with him every day and keep close to me! ²⁴Whoever loses his life for my sake will save it, but whoever insists on keeping his life will lose it; ²⁵and what profit is there in gaining the whole world when it means forfeiting one’s self? —Luke 9:23-25 (TLB)

2| REMOVE

Listen! It’s the voice of someone shouting, “Clear the way through the wilderness for the LORD! Make a straight highway through the wasteland for our God! —Isaiah 40:3 (NLT)

3| WALK

A Disciple: One Who Is Being

By Christ

“Come, follow me,” Jesus said, “and I will make you fishers of men.” —Matthew 4:19 (NIV)

4| BE

“Come, follow me,” Jesus said, “and I will make you fishers of men.” —Matthew 4:19 (NIV)

A Disciple: One Who Is

To The Mission Of Christ.

¹⁹Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, ²⁰and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.” —Matthew 28:19-20 (NIV)

This is to my Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples. —John 15:8 (NIV)

¹⁹For God was in Christ, restoring the world to himself, no longer counting men’s sins against them but blotting them out. This is the wonderful message he has given us to tell others. ²⁰We are Christ’s ambassadors. God is using us to speak to you: we beg you, as though Christ himself were here pleading with you, receive the love he offers you—be reconciled to God. —2 Corinthians 5:19-20 (TLB)

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Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up. —Galatians 6:9 (NIV)