Priorities - what is important in your life?
The Big Rock for The Way (and any Church) is…
The Way’s Mission Statement
“Developing Disciples Who Declare & Demonstrate a different Way of Life to a Watching World.”
“Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.” —Jesus, Matthew 28.19-20
Discipleship: the
The Way’s Vision Statement
“To see every person on the planet go all-in with Jesus & the Church.”
“For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God. When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory.” —Colossians 3.3-4
The Matrix
Your discipleship can’t be
Two Common Ways to Approach Discipleship & Life
- Accidentally
- Haphazardly
“Be very careful, then, how you live — not as unwise but as wise, making the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil. Therefore do not be foolish bug understand what the Lord’s will is.” —Ephesians 5.15-17
Growing as an apprentice of Jesus takes
You need a plan.
“And now, O Israel, what does the Lord your God ask of you but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways, to love Him, to serve the Lord your God with ALL your heart and with all your soul.” —Deuteronomy 10.12
Your relationship with Jesus must always be
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Challenge: Create or reevaluate my intentional plan for growing as an apprentice of Jesus.
Suggestions for Your Intentional Plan
- The Big Rock: Daily Quiet Time. Eremos.
- Weekly Worship Attendance.
- Attend/Join Life Group.
- Grow Your Generosity by 1% every year until you are Tithing (10%).
- Serve in Guest Services & Hospitality, Way Kids, or Worship Arts.
- B.L.E.S.S. 3 people a week.
“Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it. What good will it be for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their life? Or what can anyone give in exchange for their life?” —Jesus, Matthew 16.24-26
Growing as an apprentice of Jesus takes
You need relationships with people.
“Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing.” —1st Thessalonians 5.11
Your relationship with Jesus must always be
, but it can never afford to be .
Challenge: Ask someone(s) to hold you accoutable.
Growing as an apprentice of Jesus takes
“Therefore, my dear friends, as you have always obeyed—not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence—continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfill His good purpose.” —Philippians 2.12-13
Challenge: Take personal responsiblity for your own spiritual growth.
“And that’s why I don’t want to go to a Church that ‘feeds’ me, in the way a predictable American Christian hears the word feeds. I want to be a part of one that makes me hungry. Hungry enough to go all the way with this Gospel I say I believe. And nothing makes me hungry like the uncompromised proclamation and demonstation of the substitutionary death and explosive resurrection of Jesus, among people who burn in white hot passion for their first love, and for the sake of the people He adores.” —Mike Patz
“See, I set before you today life and prosperity, death and destruction. For I command you today to love the Lord your God, to walk in obedience to Him, and to keep His commands, decrees and laws; then you will live and increase, and the Lord your God will bless you in the land you are entering to possess.” —Deuteronomy 30.15-16
“The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.” —Jesus, John 10.10