“Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.””
- Mathew 28:18-20 NIV
“I will not say much more to you, for the prince of this world is coming. He has no hold over me,”
- John 14:30 NIV
“He canceled the record of the charges against us and took it away by nailing it to the cross. In this way, he disarmed the spiritual rulers and authorities. He shamed them publicly by his victory over them on the cross.”
- Colossians 2:14-15 NLT
Discipleship begins with our relationship with Jesus.
“Jesus called out to them, ‘Come, follow me…….’
- Mathew 4:19 NIV
“I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.”
- John 15:15 NIV
“For you have not received a spirit of slavery leading to fear again, but you have received a spirit of adoption as sons and daughters by which we cry out, “Abba! Father!””
- Romans 8:15, NASB2020
“God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.”
- 2 Corinthians 5:21 NIV
“The Holy Spirit also testifies to us about this. First he says: “This is the covenant I will make with them after that time, says the Lord. I will put my laws in their hearts, and I will write them on their minds.” Then he adds: “Their sins and lawless acts I will remember no more.””
- Heb 10: 15-17 NIV
“‘Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: My anger and my wrath will be poured out on this place—on man and beast, on the trees of the field and on the crops of your land—and it will burn and not be quenched.”
- Jeremiah 7:20 NIV
“Therefore this is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: “See, I will make this people eat bitter food and drink poisoned water. I will scatter them among nations that neither they nor their ancestors have known, and I will pursue them with the sword until I have made an end of them.”
- Jeremiah 9:15 NIV
Discipleship grows in our relationship with one another.
“…so we cared for you. Because we loved you so much, we were delighted to share with you not only the gospel of God but our lives as well.”
- 1 Thesalonians 2:8 NIV