1. Characteristics of Jesus-Followers
Disciple
Characteristics of Jesus-Followers

2. Disciple-followers of Jesus
Becoming Jesus-Followers
Disciple (the Noun) – Characteristics
Disciple (the Verb) – Doing it!
Disciple-making Communities

3. Characteristics of Jesus-Followers
A disciple is not above the teacher, nor a servant above his lord;
It is enough for the disciple that he becomes like his teacher, and the servant like his lord.
Matt
Characteristics of Jesus-Followers

4. Characteristics of Jesus-Followers
Becoming
Becoming like the Teacher
It is enough that…!
Characteristics of Jesus-Followers

5. Now great crowds accompanied him, and he turned and said to them, "If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple. Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple. For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it? Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock him, saying, 'This man began to build and was not able to finish.’ Or what king, going out to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and deliberate whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand? And if not, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends a delegation and asks for terms of peace. So therefore, any one of you who does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple. (Luke 14:25-33)

6. Characteristics of Jesus-Followers
Becoming
Dying
Dying to Self-n-Stuff
Characteristics of Jesus-Followers

7. As he was saying these things, many believed in him
As he was saying these things, many believed in him. So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him, "If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” They answered him, "We are offspring of Abraham and have never been enslaved to anyone. How is it that you say, 'You will become free'?” Jesus answered them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who practices sin is a slave to sin… So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed. (John 8:30-36)

8. Characteristics of Jesus-Followers
Becoming
Dying
Living
Living in His Logos
The Truth sets you free!
Characteristics of Jesus-Followers

9. Characteristics of Jesus-Followers
By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples. (John 15:8)
Characteristics of Jesus-Followers

10. Characteristics of Jesus-Followers
Becoming
Dying
Living
Fruit-Bearing
Fruit, more fruit, much fruit
Fruit that will last!
Characteristics of Jesus-Followers

11. Characteristics of Jesus-Followers
By this, all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another." (John 13:35)
Characteristics of Jesus-Followers

12. Characteristics of Jesus-Followers
Becoming
Dying
Living
Fruit-Bearing
Fruit, more fruit, much fruit
Fruit that will last!
Love!!
Characteristics of Jesus-Followers

13. Characteristics of Jesus-Followers
"He who receives you receives Me, and he who receives Me receives Him who sent Me. "He who receives a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a prophet's reward; and he who receives a righteous man in the name of a righteous man shall receive a righteous man's reward. "And whoever in the name of a disciple gives to one of these little ones even a cup of cold water to drink, truly I say to you, he shall not lose his reward." (Mat 10:39-42)
Characteristics of Jesus-Followers

14. Characteristics of Jesus-Followers
Becoming
Dying
Living
Fruit-Bearing
Fruit, more fruit, much fruit
Love!
Welcoming the ‘little ones’
Characteristics of Jesus-Followers

15. Characteristics of Jesus-Followers
Becoming
Dying
Living
Fruit-Bearing
Characteristics of Jesus-Followers

16. Characteristics of Jesus-Followers
Becoming like Jesus
Dying to Self-n-Stuff
Living in His Logos
Bearing much Fruit

17. Jesus Living Bearing Fruit Dying Becoming like in His Logos to
More Fruit
Much Fruit
Lasting Fruit
Dying to
Self-Stuff

18. Bearing Much Fruit Becoming like Jesus
Dying to Self-Stuff Living in His Logos

21. Characteristics of Jesus-Followers
Disciple
Characteristics of Jesus-Followers