Disciples

Without discipleship, Christianity doesn’t survive

“Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and the Holy Spirit, 20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.” Matthew 28:18-20

“Immediately Jesus made the disciples get into the boat and go on ahead of him to the other side, while he dismissed the crowd. After he had dismissed them, he went up on a mountainside by himself to pray. Later that night, he was there alone, and the boat was already a considerable distance from land, buffeted by the waves because the wind was against it. Shortly before dawn Jesus went out to them, walking on the lake. When the disciples saw him walking on the lake, they were terrified. “It’s a ghost,” they said, and cried out in fear. But Jesus immediately said to them: “Take courage! It is I. Don’t be afraid.” “Lord, if it’s you,” Peter replied, “tell me to come to you on the water.” “Come,” he said. Then Peter got down out of the boat, walked on the water and came toward Jesus. But when he saw the wind, he was afraid and, beginning to sink, cried out, “Lord, save me!” Immediately Jesus reached out his hand and caught him. “You of little faith,” he said, “why did you doubt?” Matthew 14:25-31

“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.” Matthew 11:28-30

Disciples

Jesus called everyone to be disciples, regular folks like you and me.

Examples of Ways to Serve

• Community meals for people in need. We need more people willing to do this.
• The Hub always needs people to help sort through our donations.
• Team of helpers who are always ready when a need pops up.
• Kids’ helpers/teachers for Sunday mornings
• Helpers with the teens on Sunday evenings
• Our Internet streaming team needs two more people
• We need to train one more sound person
• We need greeters for Sunday morning and one more donut/coffee ministry team
• We need camp helpers three times a year
• We need a person who can do website data information entry
• Regularly we are presented with needs for short, two to three day regional mission
• trips
• We can always use help maintaining the grounds here at the church
• Likewise, the inside of our church building regularly needs maintenance
• We need someone who can manage and oversee the maintenance of our three
• vehicles.

May you find where God wants you to plug into the discipleship pipeline and may you, forever and always, be covered in the dust of the Rabbi, Jesus!