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Are the Church’s Discipleship & Evangelism Gears Rusty? A Week’s Worth of Discipleship Questions

The week before last, my blog post focus was evangelism.  You can see those posts here:

Gospel, Evangelism, and Discipleship Tweaking

The Rejection of The Gospel is a “Decision”

My “Evangelism Method.” Yes, it’s this simple.

Are “Evangelizing,” & “Sharing your Faith,” the same thing?

Evangelism, Bad Decisions, Bad Statistics, and Urban Legends.

An Evangelist’s Job is to get people to take the initial steps in discipleship. T or F ?

This past week, my focus was, once again, on discipleship.  You can see those posts here:

Jesus started Making Disciples before He made Christians. What do we do?

“They Believed.” How do you know when someone has believed?

A Disciple Maker’s “Dream Question.”

Making Disciples is the Mission of the Church

When our Discipleship gets in the way of God’s Discipleship.

While I always ask questions at the end of my posts, I thought I would list this week’s questions here for your consideration.

1.  Can a person be a disciple and not yet a believer in Jesus, a “Christian.”

2.  Can you disciple an unbeliever?

3.  When someone becomes a believer or Christian, can we consider them as a “disciple made?”

4.  Are we supposed to be determining when others believe?

5.  If we focused on Making Disciples instead of conversions, would that make any practical difference?

6.  How did biblical messengers of God’s Gospel determine when others believed.

7.  Someone asks you, “How can I follow this Jesus that you follow?”  What do you say, and what will you do?

8.  Is Making Disciples, “The” Mission of The Church? 

9.  Are we to obey the teaching component of the Great Commission, or are we to step out of the way and let Jesus (or the Spirit) teach others directly?

10. When does programing or bringing structure to discipleship get in the way of God’s desire to disciple others directly? Examples?

11. If the making of disciples, or discipleship requires that we teach others to observe/obey ALL that Jesus commanded, then wouldn’t that take a considerable amount of time? Are we relieved of our responsibility to teach when we have taught all of those commandments?

 Please share this link as you wish or use these questions as you would like.  I would only ask that you provide a link back to this blog post as a courtesy.  Practically every one of the posts on my blog has questions to consider at the end.  If you have not read them before, I would encourage you to do so.
Peace and Blessings, Miguel

 

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    1. guy muse December 2, 2012 at 9:04 am #

      Lots of good questions and material in all the above. Keep up the good work, and keep asking those questions. They “incomodarnos”, but we need to be “incomodados.”

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