Once a person is saved, discipleship is “teaching them” how to “observe all things” that Jesus left for them to be and to do as His followers. We are all left with a great commission, the one Jesus Christ left for all of His disciples. I have been discipling individuals since I led my first person to the Lord at about age 11. So for the past 45+ years I have been learning all I can from everyone I meet who has ever discipled another believer. Today is the summary of what I have learned. Next year it will change a bit more after meeting and learning from more disciplers. The next year the same. This is a life-long process. We can learn so much if we love something so much we want to learn it better and better. What is first? After establishing that the person is saved, the very next truth for them to learn is the:
CONNECTION BETWEEN SALVATION & THE REST OF LIFE
This connection was taught by Paul in Colossians 2:6. Note with them what Paul said: Colossians 2:6 (NKJV) As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, The same way God saved us is how we are to follow Christ through life. That is simple, clear, and easily explained in Scripture. Paul went on to teach the saints at Colosse that there was even a correspondence to God's Word and the fullness of the Spirit. In fact Paul uses the exact same language to Ephesus for being Spirit-filled (Ephesians 5:18), as he does for being Word-filled (Colossians 3:16-17). Salvation and all the work of God within us by His Spirit are founded upon God's Word. Those are the foundational truths that the Apostle Paul taught as he planted churches across the Roman World.
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Pastor John Barnett has been devouring the Word of God for over 30 years. John, now the teaching pastor of Calvary Bible Church in Kalamazoo, Michigan has served congregations in Oklahoma, New England, Georgia and California. He also served on the Faculty of the Master's College...
