The Life-long Journey of a Jesus-Follower
Part of THE LIFE OF A JESUS FOLLOWER
April 16, 2023

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THE LIFE-LONG JOURNEY OF A JESUS-FOLLOWER
Multiple Passages (see below) | 04/16/2023


DEFINING TERMS

What is a disciple? An apprentice or

of a master.

The Discipleship Journey?The Christian’s lifelong process of being conformed to the image of Christ for the sake of others.

What is a disciplined person? Someone who has learned how to do the right

, in the right , at the right , with the right .

The journey of a maturing Christian is a journey of deepening

& deepening to God’s control of our life and being.

THE PROCESS…
The Christian journey, therefore, is an intentional and continual

to a lifelong of growth toward wholeness in Christ.

of BEING CONFORMED…

• The difference between conforming ourselves and being conformed is the vital issue of

.

The great reversal: from being the subject who controls all other things to being a person who is shaped by the

, and of God in all things.

to THE IMAGE OF CHRIST…

  1. Confrontation: Our

    is the point of our unlikeness to the image of Christ, where we must to self.

  2. Consecration: When you practice spiritual habits, or practices or disciplines, you are

    yourself in a way to God.

for THE SAKE OF OTHERS.

PASSAGES

Ephesians 4:22-24
You were taught with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; to be made new in the attitude of your minds; and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.

Galatians 2:20
I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

Ephesians 4:13, 15
…until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ…
We will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ.

2 Corinthians 3:18
And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory…

Colossians 3:9-10
…Since you have taken off your old self with its practices 10 and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.

Luke 9:23-24
Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me. 24 For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will save it.

Luke 22:37-40
Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.

2 Thessalonians 1:3
We ought always to thank God for you, brothers and sisters, and rightly so, because your faith is growing more and more, and the love all of you have for one another is increasing.

Ezekiel 36:26
I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.