Multiply Discipleship Series |
What is Multiply?
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Multiply is a 24 week discipleship training series that will help you become a better disciple and enable you to become one who disciples others.
The series will be held on Wednesday nights, starting September 11 and ending March 12, with three weeks off over Christmas.
Below is the "Forward" from the book. It will give you an idea of what will be going on.
On the right is a list of the 24 sessions. Click on the title of a session and you will be able to read the material for that week and print it if you wish.
Participants are asked to read the material and consider the questions before coming to the weekly meeting.
Pastor Norman
The series will be held on Wednesday nights, starting September 11 and ending March 12, with three weeks off over Christmas.
Below is the "Forward" from the book. It will give you an idea of what will be going on.
On the right is a list of the 24 sessions. Click on the title of a session and you will be able to read the material for that week and print it if you wish.
Participants are asked to read the material and consider the questions before coming to the weekly meeting.
Pastor Norman
Forward; by David Platt
From the beginning of Christianity, the natural overflow of being a disciple of Jesus has always been to make disciples of Jesus. “Follow me,” Jesus said, “and I will make you fishers of men” (Matt. 4:19). This was a promise: Jesus would take His disciples and turn them into disciple makers. And this was a command: He called each of His disciples to go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them and teaching them to obey Him (Matt. 28:19–20). From the start, God’s design has been for every single disciple of Jesus to make disciples who make disciples who make disciples until the gospel spreads to all peoples. Yet we have subtly and tragically taken this costly command of Christ to go, baptize, and teach all nations and mutated it into a comfortable call for Christians to come, be baptized, and listen in one location. If you were to ask individual Christians today what it means to make disciples, you would likely get jumbled thoughts, ambiguous answers, and probably even some blank stares. In all our activity as Christians and with all our resources in the church, we are in danger of practically ignoring the commission of Christ. We view evangelism as a dreaded topic, we reduce discipleship to a canned program, and so many in the church end up sidelined in a spectator mentality that delegates disciple making to pastors and professionals, ministers and missionaries. But this is not the way it’s supposed to be. Jesus has invited all of us to be a part of His plan. He has designed all of His people to know His joy as we share His love, spread His Word, and multiply His life among all of the peoples of the earth. This is the grand purpose for which we were created: to enjoy the grace of Christ as we spread the gospel of Christ from wherever we live to the ends of the earth. And this purpose is worth giving our lives to seeing it accomplished. It’s worth it for billions of people who do not yet know the mercy and majesty of God in Christ. And it’s worth it for you and me, because we were made to be disciples who make disciples until the day when we see the face of the One we follow, and together with all nations we experience His satisfaction for all of eternity. This is the heart behind the material you hold in your hand. When Francis Chan and I first met, our hearts immediately resonated around a shared passion for making disciples. We have a lot to learn, but we eagerly want to make disciples in our lives, and we zealously long to see every member of the church mobilized to make disciples through their lives. This material is part of the product of that passion. Francis and Mark have provided a simple, practical, biblical, helpful, and personal tool for disciples of Jesus who want to make disciples of Jesus. I pray that it will be used in God’s mercy to fuel the multiplication of the love and life of Christ literally all over the world ultimately for the glory of God’s name. |
Part 1: Living as a Disciple Maker
Part 2: Living as the Church
Part 3: How to Study the Bible
Part 4: Understanding the Old Testament
Part 5: Understanding the New Testament
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