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 John 14:23-24
Jesus replied, “Anyone who loves me will obey my
teaching. My Father will love them, and we will
come to them and make our home with them.
Anyone who does not love me will not obey my
teaching. These words you hear are not my own;
they belong to the Father who sent me.

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 John 15:19-24
“As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now
remain in my love. If you keep my commands, you will
remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s
commands and remain in his love. I have told you this so
that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be
complete. My command is this: Love each other as I have
loved you. Greater love has no one that this: to lay down
one’s life for one’s friends. You are my friends if you do
what I command.

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 Class Schedule and Topics
1st Sunday 2nd Sunday 3rd Sunday 4th Sunday
Session 1 Session 2 Session 3 Session 4
Call to Church and Involvement Evangelism/
Discipleship Accountability and Tithing Personal Ministry

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 CLASS REQUIREMENTS
1. 100% Attendance, Be on time, class duration is 1pm-4pm
2. Fasting
a. Every Friday, 6am to 6pm
b. Attend 1 to 2 Friday night Corporate Prayer and Fasting
3. Bible Reading with specific passage for SOAP submission:
a. Week 1 – Acts 1-7
b. Week 2 – Acts 8-14
c. Week 3 – Acts 15-21
d. Week 4 – Acts 22-28
4. Lesson Reviews

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 CLASS REQUIREMENTS
5. Memory verses:
a. Romans 3:23 b. Romans 6:23 c. Isaiah 53:6 d. Hebrews 9:27
e. Romans 5:8 f. 1 Peter 3:18 g. Titus 3:5 h. Revelation 3:20
i. Ephesians 2:8-9 j. John 1:12
6. Lead and facilitate 1 session of Lifegroup
7. Look for 1 person to disciple from your prayer of 3
8. Have an Accountability Partner
9. Write your Personal Evangelism Script
- turn your testimony to a message for sharing the gospel)

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LESSON 1

TRANSFORMATION
THE CALL OF DISCIPLESHIP
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What are you carrying?

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 Luke 9:57-62
57As they were walking along the road, a man said to him, “I will
follow you wherever you go.” 58 Jesus replied, “Foxes have dens
and birds have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his
head.” 59He said to another man, “Follow me.” But he replied,
“Lord, first let me go and bury my father.” 60 Jesus said to him, “Let
the dead bury their own dead, but you go and proclaim the
kingdom of God.” 61 Still another said, “I will follow you, Lord; but
first let me go back and say goodbye to my family.” 62 Jesus replied,
“No one who puts a hand to the plow and looks back is fit for
service in the kingdom of God.”
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 EXCUSES

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IS THERE ANYTHING THAT KEEPS YOU
FROM BECOMING A FULLY DEVOTED
FOLLOWER OF JESUS CHRIST?

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 Matthew 28:18-20
And 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.”
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How do we view a disciple today?

?
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 Teaching in the Ancient World

To a small group

To a large crowd

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What we learned before:

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WHAT IS A DISCIPLE?

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 DISCIPLE
Mathetes (Greek)

A pupil or a student An apprentice to a

tradesman

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WHAT IS YOUR ATTITUDE
TOWARD RADICAL
DISCIPLESHIP?

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 WHAT A DISCIPLE SHOULD HAVE

• A Transformed Heart and Mind

• A Transformed Desire and Will
• A Transformed Relationships and Purpose
• The Practices of a Disciple

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 TRANSFORMED
HEART AND MIND

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TRANSFORMED HEART AND MIND
• Being Born-Again in Christ
John 3:3
Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born
again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

Romans 12:2
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the
renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is
the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
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 TRANSFORMED HEART
Ezekiel 36:25-27

25 I
will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean;
I will cleanse you from all your impurities and from all
your idols. 26 I will give you a new heart and put a new
spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of
stone and give you a heart of flesh. 27 And I will put my
Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees and be
careful to keep my laws.
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 TRANSFORMED HEART
1. Spiritually alive – Ephesians 2:1-10
2. Re-created in Christ – Romans 6:1-11, 2 Corinthians
5:17
3. Holy Spirit indwelling – Romans 8:9-17, 1 Corinthians
6:19-20, 2 Corinthians 5:1-5, Ephesians 1:13-14
4. Holy Spirit empowered

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A CONVERTED PERSON IS
A CHANGED PERSON

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 TRANSFORMED HEART
1John 3:10-18

HEART CHECK

Will someone recognize you being a Christian

by your very action?

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 TRANSFORMED MIND

Romans 12:2

Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be

transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you
will be able to test and approve what God’s will is —
his good, pleasing and perfect will.

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 TRANSFORMED MIND

READ A healthy disciple

STUDY
loves and studies
APPLY God’s word.
MEMORIZE

MEDITATE

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 TRANSFORMED MIND
1 Corinthians 2:16

MIND CHECK

When we speak, do others recognize the

difference in our way of thinking?

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 TRANSFORMED
DESIRES AND WILL

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 TRANSFORMED DESIRE AND WILL
Psalm 42:1–2

As a deer pants for flowing streams, so my soul pants for

you, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When
shall I come and appear before God?

John 14:15

If you love me, you will keep my commandments.

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 TRANSFORMED DESIRES
A disciple of Jesus learns to love what Jesus loves and to hate what
Jesus hates.

• Jesus practices justice, mercy, and faithfulness, so should His

disciples. (Matthew 23:23)
“Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you
hypocrites! You give a tenth of your spices—mint, dill and
cumin. But you have neglected the more important matters of
the law—justice, mercy and faithfulness. You should have
practiced the latter, without neglecting the former.”
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 TRANSFORMED DESIRES
A disciple of Jesus learns to love what Jesus loves and to hate what
Jesus hates.

• Jesus showed His love for His people, His neighbor, and His
enemies, an example that His disciple must follow. (Luke
6:27-36)

“But to you who are listening I say: Love your enemies, do

good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray
for those who mistreat you.”
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 TRANSFORMED DESIRES
A disciple of Jesus learns to love what Jesus loves and to hate what
Jesus hates.

• Jesus, as God, hates pagan worship, wickedness, arrogance,

lying, and violence. Disciples of Jesus Christ must turn away
from these, and should hate these too. (Deuteronomy 12:29-
31)
“You must not worship the Lord your God in their way,
because in worshiping their gods, they do all kinds of
detestable things the Lord hates.”
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 TRANSFORMED DESIRES

Philippians 3:7-14

DESIRES CHECK

Do we desire what God desires?

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 TRANSFORMED WILL
Romans 6:1-4

What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may

increase? 2 By no means! We are those who have died to sin; how
can we live in it any longer? 3 Or don’t you know that all of us who
were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4 We
were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in
order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the
glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.

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 TRANSFORMED WILL
Romans 6:5-7

5 Forif we have been united with him in a death like his, we will
certainly also be united with him in a resurrection like his. 6 For we
know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled
by sin might be done away with,[a] that we should no longer be
slaves to sin— 7 because anyone who has died has been set free
from sin.

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 TRANSFORMED WILL
Romans 6:8-11

8 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with
him. 9 For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he
cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him. 10 The
death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he
lives to God.
11 In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in

Christ Jesus.

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 TRANSFORMED WILL

Romans 6:1-11

WILL CHECK

Have we submitted our will to the Lordship

of Jesus and how is that seen?
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RELATIONSHIPS AND PURPOSE

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 TRANSFORMED RELATIONSHIPS AND
PURPOSE
John 13:35
By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have
love for one another.

2 Corinthians 5:14-15
For the love of Christ controls, us, because we have concluded this:
that one died for all, therefore, all have died; and he died for all,
that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him
who for their sake died and was raised.

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 TRANSFORMED RELATIONSHIPS
1. Love that rules out any form of hurt or injury to
another person.

Romans 13:10
Love does no harm to a neighbor. Therefore love is the
fulfillment of the law

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 TRANSFORMED RELATIONSHIPS
2. Love means that we do good to other people.

John 13:34
A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have
loved you, so you must love one another.

e.g. The Good Samaritan – Luke 10:25-37

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3. Love our Enemies

Luke 6:35
35 But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to

them without expecting to get anything back. Then your

reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most
High, because he is kind to the ungrateful and wicked. 36 Be
merciful, just as your Father is merciful.

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 TRANSFORMED RELATIONSHIPS
John 13:34-35, Luke 10:25-37

RELATIONSHIP CHECK

What kind of relationships do we have that

is reflective of a disciple of Christ?
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 TRANSFORMED PURPOSE

1 Corinthians 10:31-33

So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all

for the glory of God. Do not cause anyone to stumble,
whether Jews, Greeks or the church of God — even as I try
to please everyone in every way. For I am not seeking my
own good but the good of many, so that they may be saved.

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 TRANSFORMED PURPOSE
2 Corinthians 5:14

14For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced

that one died for all, and therefore all died.

We are all part of the Great Commission and

therefore part of the process of discipleship.

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 WHAT SHOULD A DISCIPLE HAVE?

Transformed Transformed Transformed Transformed Transformed Transformed

Heart Mind Desires Will Relationships Purpose

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 SEE. THINK. WONDER

Share one (1) truth Share one (1) Write one (1)
about God that was reflection on how this question you have
taught that speaks truth applies to your about the lesson or
to you life, your faith and how it applies to the
your worldview Christian Faith
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THE PRACTICES OF
A DISCIPLE

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THE PRACTICES OF A DISCIPLE

Fellowship

Ministry

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 GROUP ACTIVITY

In your own words, describe what a spiritually

mature disciple of Jesus Christ looks like.

What are the things you can start doing, and

stop doing in order to reflect Jesus in your life?

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Assignments for
Next Session

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A. Bible Reading– Acts 1-7
B. One S.O.A.P. Submission –Acts 3
C. Memory Verses –
1. Romans 3:23
2. Romans 6:23
3. Isaiah 53:6
4. Hebrews 9:27
D. Serve in a Ministry of the Church