Slides fro Bill Drewett's message at Bristol Vineyard, on 9th June 2013 - Discipleship - Part 3

1. Discipleship - Part 3
Discipleship-free Christianity

2. For Christians, is discipleship optional?

3. Why make discipleship the number one
priority?

4. What does discipleship-free Christianity
look like?

5. one-off
event
on-going
process

6. 8 For by grace you have been saved through
faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift
of God, 9 not a result of works, so that no one
may boast. 10 For we are his
workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good
works, which God prepared beforehand, that we
should walk in them.
Ephesians 2:8-10

7. one-off
event
on-going
process

8. external v. internal

9. 22 Many will say to me on that day, “Lord, Lord,
did we not prophesy in your name and in your
name drive out demons and in your name
perform many miracles?” 23 Then I will tell them
plainly, “I never knew you. Away from me, you
evildoers!”

10. performance v. learning

11. Very truly I tell you, unless a grain of wheat
falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a
single seed. But if it dies, it produces many
seeds.
John 12:24

12. Discipleship-free Christianity
1. Events, not processes
2. External, not internal
3. Performance, not learning

13. For Christians, is discipleship optional?

14. And in Antioch the disciples were first
called Christians.
Acts 11: 26