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THEORY OF CHURCH GROWTH (제22강) ✝️✝️✝️ (영문)
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THEORY OF CHURCH GROWTH (제22강) ✝️✝️✝️ (영문)
Understanding Discipleship (3)
(19) All these fruits should be born as a result of a life with Christ. The United Methodist Council of Bishops defined the signs of faithfulness in discipleship as follows:
1) faithful participation in the life of a congregation,
2) daily readings of Scriptures,
3) living a life of prayer,
4) fasting,
5) living simply,
6) stewarding the gifts of life,
7) doing good to others,
8) advocating peace and justice,
9) sharing the faith, and
10) giving God the glory (The United Methodist Council of Bishops 1990, 125-131).
These also may be integrated into the fruits of the Holy Spirit.
(20) What are the qualifications of discipleship? There are two aspects in the qualifications of discipleship: supernatural and natural.
(21) One is a divine call; the other is the result of human effort. First of all, the man who has been called by God qualifies as Jesus' disciple (Rom. 1:1; Act. 9:15-16).
(22) The divine call is the first condition of the qualifications in discipleship (Eph. 4:11-12).
(23) On this basis God gives rebirth and necessary gifts to him for ministry through the Holy Spirit (Cho 1985, 69).
(24) The divine call involved the gifts of God necessary to ministry (1 Cor. 12:8-11; 12:28-30).
(25) \"The church ratifies God's call and gifts by conferring its authority on the individual\" said James F. White (White 1976, 54).
(26) The gifts given by God are to be used to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ (Harbaugh 1990, 88).
(27) To be a good disciple he must follow Jesus without waiting to be called, but the would-be disciple wants to have his initiative rather than that of Jesus Christ. The would-be disciple wants to bury his father before he starts to follow Jesus (Matt. 8:21; Bonhoeffer 1961, 65).
(28) In the human realm, the man who always obeys God in everything qualifies. C. Peter Wagner stated the qualifications for serving God as follows:
1) people who know God,
2) people filled with the Holy Spirit,
3) people of prayer,
4) people committed to the body of Christ,
5) people obedient to the Lord, and
6) people who are energetic and creative (Wagner 1987, 20-23).
(29) Going back to the Bible, the qualifications of discipleship, like apostleship, have been found in Act. 6:3, and of discipleship, like stewardship, in 1 Tim. 3:1-13 and Titus 1:5-9 from the human perspective.
(30) The people (disciples) called by God must love the Lord and teach God's commandments to their children (Deut. 6:4-9).
(31) The gospel shows the way of discipleship: \"A man named Simon of Cyrene was coming in from the fields, and they pressed him into service to carry the cross\" (Mark 15:21).
(32) \"This image of Simon of Cyrene forced to carry Jesus' cross is also an ima
ge of one who is called to follow Christ in discipleship,\" said Cornwell (Cornwell 1989, 109).
(33) Accordingly, the way of discipleship is the way of the cross, and the way of discipleship has been shown in the Gospel of Luke:
Whoever wishes to be my follower must deny his very self, take up his cross each day and follow in my steps. Whoever saves his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will save it. (Luke 9:23-24)
(34) The sacred question and answer issue between Christ and Peter in the New Testament may become a good swearing-in ceremony or inauguration of discipleship:
A third time Jesus asked him, \"Simon, son of John, do you love me?\" Peter was hurt because he had asked him a third time, \"Do you love me?\" So he said to him, \"Lord, you know everything. You know well that I love you.\" Jesus said to him, \"Feed my sheep.\" (John 21:17) ⛪️⛪️⛪️
- To be continued
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