Discipleship model of the Jesus Christ and the Apostles

Discipleship model of the Jesus Christ and the Apostles

We don’t need to reinvent the wheel. Just follow the model Jesus Modelled.

Steps	Discipler	Disciple
1	Teach and Model The word of God.	Learn and emulate the word of God
2	Give the understanding of the word (how to read and understand) with the help of the Holy Spirit	Gain understanding by asking reason,  and asking questions.
3	Imparting, the how to apply the knowledge of the taught word.	Applying practically the word learnt. Experiencing the applied knowledge.
4	Consistently Bearing the Fruit of the Spirit through obedience of the word of God	Learning to Bear the fruit of the Spirit, through obedience of the word of God
5	Leading the disciple in every area of Life.	Being open to be led and following the lead in every area of ones life.
6	Teaching the disciple to deny himself, willing carry the cross (suffer in the path of obedience) and follow Jesus Christ footsteps by modeling it daily	Practicing denying self, carry the cross (suffer in the path of obedience) and follow Jesus Christ footsteps Daily

 

 

The apostles went through this process for 3 and half years. They were commanded preach the gospel and to teach what they learnt to others and make disciples of Jesus Christ.

Question is why are there not many disciples today?

1)    It is because there are not many Disciples around, who deny themselves take up the cross and follow Jesus Christ.

2)    It is also because; there are not many willing to be discipled.

Most people like lazy Christianity. believe, attend bible studies, attend church and volunteer if you can model of Chirstianity. Not many want to deny self, suffer in the path of obedience and follow in the footsteps of Jesus Christ.

Most pastors don’t spend time discipling people, as it’s lot of work and not a lot of results. Hirelings don’t have time beyond the 9 to 5 job mentality.

Of all the people (thousands) that believed Jesus Christ, Only the eleven and the 120 were in the upper room waiting for the Holy Spirit.

Only disciples beget disciples.

 If you want to make disciples you need to lead by example and be willing to invest time.  

If you want to be disciple you need to learn to follow.

Following are the scriptures for reference.

Matthew 28:19-20

^19 [a]Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, ²⁰ teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you ^[b]always, even to the end of the age.

Matthew 16:24

²⁴ Then Jesus said to His disciples, “If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me.

 

Luke 6:46

⁴⁶ “Why do you call Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and do not do what I say?

John 15:  1- 27

 “I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. ² Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit, He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit, He ^[a]prunes it so that it may bear more fruit. ³ You are already ^[b]clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. ⁴ Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit ^[c]of itself unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you unless you abide in Me. ⁵ I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing. ⁶ If anyone does not abide in Me, he is thrown away as a branch and dries up; and they gather them, and cast them into the fire and they are burned. ⁷ If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. ⁸ My Father is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit, and so ^[d]prove to be My disciples. ⁹ Just as the Father has loved Me, I have also loved you; abide in My love. ¹⁰ If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love; just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love. ¹¹ These things I have spoken to you so that My joy may be in you, and that your joy may be made full.

Disciples’ Relation to Each Other

¹² “This is My commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you. ¹³ Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends. ¹⁴ You are My friends if you do what I command you. ¹⁵ No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you. ¹⁶ You did not choose Me but I chose you, and appointed you that you would go and bear fruit, and that your fruit would remain, so that whatever you ask of the Father in My name He may give to you. ¹⁷ This I command you, that you love one another.

Disciples’ Relation to the World

¹⁸ “If the world hates you, ^[e]you know that it has hated Me before it hated you. ¹⁹ If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, because of this the world hates you. ²⁰ Remember the word that I said to you, ‘A slave is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you; if they kept My word, they will keep yours also. ²¹ But all these things they will do to you for My name’s sake, because they do not know the One who sent Me. ²² If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have ^[f]sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin. ²³ He who hates Me hates My Father also. ²⁴ If I had not done among them the works which no one else did, they would not have ^[g]sin; but now they have both seen and hated Me and My Father as well. ²⁵ But they have done this to fulfill the word that is written in their Law, ‘They hated Me without a cause.’

²⁶ “When the ^[h]Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, that is the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, He will testify about Me, ^27 [i]and you will testify also, because you have been with Me from the beginning.

 1 Corinthians 11:1

11 Be imitators of me, just as I also am of Christ.