From Compartmentalized Discipleship to Holistic Discipleship

Jul 12, 2020

DiscipleShift #5

From “Compartmentalized Discipleship” to “Holistic Discipleship”

By Louie Marsh, 7-12-2020

 

LAST PIC – BRIAN THE SEXY VEGAN!

 

• From come & SEE to come & DIE

 

 

• True Discipleship – giving my WHOLE LIFE over to the Lordship of Jesus.

 

1  I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Romans 12:1 (ESV)

 

• GOD’S MERCY is my motivation to serve.

 

3  Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, 2 Corinthians 1:3 (ESV)

 

• I really worship when I choose to GIVE IT ALL to God.

 

13  Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness. Romans 6:13 (ESV)

 

22  And when the time came for their purification according to the Law of Moses, they brought him up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord Luke 2:22 (ESV)

 

• Living for Jesus everyday is true

 

Which is your reasonable service (tēn logikēn humōn latreian). "Your rational (spiritual) service (worship)." For latreia, see note on §Romans 9:4. Logikos is from logos, reason. The phrase means here "worship rendered by the reason (or soul)."
Word Pictures in the New Testament.

 

• True discipleship results in my

 

2  Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. Romans 12:2 (ESV)

 

• Everyone conforms to

 

14  As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance, 1 Peter 1:14 (ESV)

 

Present passive imperative stop being fashioned or do not have the habit of being fashioned

• Disciples conform to Jesus and are therefore

 

18  And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit. 2 Corinthians 3:18 (ESV)

 

Word used of Jesus’ transfiguration – that’s what should be happening to us, degree by degree.

 

3) As a disciple I am transformed to LIVE A LIFE of worship.

 

2  Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. Romans 12:2 (ESV)

 

• As I deal with life’s problems I must TEST AND SEE what God’s will is.

 

21  but test everything; hold fast what is good. 1 Thessalonians 5:21 (ESV)

 

• As a disciple I can learn to THINK & ACT like Jesus.

 

16  “For who has understood the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?” But we have the mind of Christ. 1 Corinthians 2:15-16 (ESV)