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Small Group Life
2-Discipleship

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19“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, 20and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you.”
Matthew 28:19-20

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It saves you by the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
I Peter 3:21
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“Reconciling Broken People to God to Become Christ’s Healing Hands.”
“To claim and to train and to send forth lives for the Lord Jesus Christ.”
…faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.
James 2:17
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4The man who says, “I know him,” but does not do what he commands is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
I John 2:4-6
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5But if anyone obeys his word, God’s love is truly made complete in him. This is how we know we are in him: 6Whoever claims to live in him must walk as Jesus did.
I John 2:4-6
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11It was he who gave some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, and some to be pastors and teachers, 12to prepare God’s people…
Ephesians 4:11-12
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Steve Anderson
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Small Group Life
2 - Discipleship
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Preparing Us For…
I. Service
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…to prepare God’s people for works of service.
Ephesians 4:12
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For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me and for the gospel will save it.
Mark 8:35

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Preparing Us For…
I. Service
2. Unity
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…until we all reach unityin the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God.
Ephesians 4:13
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“I and the Father are one.”
John 10:30
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1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2He was with God in the beginning.
John1:1-2
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“I will remain in the world no longer, but they are still in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them by the power of your name--the name you gave me--so that they may be one as we are one.”
John 17:11
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“…that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believethat you have sent me.”
John 171
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May they be brought to complete unityto let the world knowthat you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.”
John 17:23
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Preparing Us For…
I. Service
2. Unity
3. Maturity
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…and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ.
Ephesians 4:13
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Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow upin your salvation.
I Peter 2:2
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Therefore let us leave the elementary teachings about Christ and go on to maturity.
Hebrews 6:1
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Preparing Us For…
I. Service
2. Unity
3. Maturity
4. Discipleship
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15…we will in all things grow up into him who is the Head, that is, Christ. 16From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work.
Ephesians 4:15-16
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