Sermon Notes

Discipleship is not just a transfer of information,
it is a transfer of lifestyle.

Matthew 28:18–20 NIV
¹⁸ Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. ¹⁹ 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, ²⁰ and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”

“If you want to experience the life of Jesus,
you have to adopt the lifestyle of Jesus.”
— John Mark Comer

John 15:9–17 NIV
⁹ “As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. ¹⁰ If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love. ¹¹ I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete. ¹² My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. ¹³ Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. ¹⁴ You are my friends if you do what I command. ¹⁵ I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you. ¹⁶ You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit — fruit that will last — and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you. ¹⁷ This is my command: Love each other.”

Discussion Igniters

(1)  What comes to mind when you hear the word disciple? 

(2)  Read Luke 6:39–40 and Luke 6:46–49. How does being able to make disciples flow out your relationship with Jesus as a disciple? 

(3)  Read Ephesians 4:11–16. What does this passage say about how we are to be discipling one another?

(4)  Read Matthew 28:18–20 and John 15:9–17. What does Jesus say being a disciple looks like?

(5)  As you look at ABCD — Accept, Belong, Contribute, and Disciple — what is one area you want grow in right now?