Well, I have the joy of drawing pictures for you this morning.
And so if Robin, if you could pull that up, I just want to remind you, we are in this
series called Revision, and what the elders of Christ the King Church are seeking to do
is the elders are seeking to shepherd our church towards a much more clear aim, why
we exist as a church.
And last week, we talked about conviction number one.
There's this little booklet that we're working through together.
It's from a book called The Vine Project, phase one, sharpening your convictions.
And last week, I drew a picture for you about conviction number one.
Why make disciples?
And so it went something like this.
Remember that our God is a triune God that came right out of Ephesians chapter 1, verses
3 through 14.
God the Father who ordains salvation, God the Son who accomplishes salvation, and God the
Holy Spirit who applies salvation, who is our seal, our guarantor of what Jesus has done
on our behalf.
So God's plan is a triune plan.
And then I wanted you to see that God's plan is a big plan.
It's a plan for the fullness of time.
God is moving all people over all time towards a designated end that we are representing by a
big old throne, as in the throne of judgment, as in Matthew 25, where all people will gather
before King Jesus, and he will separate all people from all time as his sheep from the
goats.
So God is moving all people from all time in this great big plan of his.
In fact, what I wanted you to see last week is that God is working out this plan right now.
In between I told you of this plan last week and this week, God for sure has been at work
all throughout the world.
I also wanted you to see that this plan was a Christocentric plan, that specifically the
cross of Jesus Christ is at the center of this plan.
Remember that this plan for the fullness of time, God intended to unite all things in
Christ, things in heaven and things on earth.
It's through the cross of Jesus Christ that God pours out an extraordinary grace, a grace
that changes people dramatically.
It changes the direction they live.
So at the cross of Jesus Christ, God does something amazing through the death of Christ.
That payment Jesus made, that act of redemption, he called it a ransom for many.
So this plan is a triune plan.
It's a big plan.
It's a Christocentric plan, by the way.
We also know that Jesus is the creator and that Jesus is the judge.
And so he's the creator, redeemer, and judge.
But we also know that this plan is a people-moving plan, that God for the fullness of time is moving
people to the cross.
Right now there are millions of people living in, that's an O, in the domain of darkness.
And they are running away from the throne.
They're not interested in following Jesus.
They're not interested in bringing glory and praise and honor to our God.
I was numbered among them and so were you.
We were living self-centered lives for this present age.
We were thinking that we had all right to determine our own lives.
We were living by the rule of self-determination.
And then this phenomenal act of grace, God intersects our lives.
He gives us ears to hear of what Jesus has done at the cross 2,000 years later.
And so what God does in glorious fashion, through the grace of God, he calls us to the cross.
And then it's by this amazing grace poured out in an extraordinary way at the cross.
He flips us.
He transforms us from living in the domain of darkness, self-centered, self-determined lives.
And he makes us new people.
And now we are living for him.
We are moving towards Jesus.
He's called us to be his disciples.
This extraordinary grace poured out at the cross results in a radical discipleship to Jesus.
And this is, of course, a glory plan.
When God radically changes us by his grace, now we're living for something far bigger than ourselves.
We're living for what we originally created for.
The glory of God.
And so we, so what God is doing for all time, is he is populating heaven with worshipers.
People who are around the throne right now singing the praises of God.
Salvation belongs to our God.
Who sits upon the throne and to the Lamb.
Praise and glory, honor and strength be to our God.
That's conviction one.
We've got, we've got to be convinced of this.
If we're not convinced of God's plan for the fullness of time, do you know what's going to happen?
We're going to be convinced of some other plan.
Some other plan is going to take his place.
We're going to be living for something else.
But this is conviction one.
God is at work, brothers and sisters.
All throughout this week, all throughout the world, God from every tribe, tongue, and nation
has been flipping people by his grace through the cross of Jesus, making them disciples of Jesus.
That's the intro.
Conviction two.
What, what is a disciple?
What is a disciple of Jesus Christ?
It's a very basic question, right?
And we can't assume that everyone in this room is sharing the same answer to that question.
Because some people think that a disciple of Jesus Christ is like someone who accepted Jesus into their heart when they were three years old,
but it's not living a life of discipleship to Jesus.
Or we can think that to be a disciple is to be in a one-on-one mentoring relationship with an older Christian.
We think of discipleship in terms of programs.
Or we can think that discipleship, a disciple of Jesus is one of the elite followers of Jesus.
Those elite people who go into full-time ministry.
They're kind of the real deal, the SEAL Team 6 of followers of Jesus.
We need to turn to Jesus.
Jesus, what do you say a disciple is?
How does Jesus answer the question, what is a disciple?
And so this morning, we're going to turn to Mark chapter 8, and we're going to look at 27 through 38,
and we're going to look at this kind of nice section of God's Word to look to Jesus and to learn from Him what a true disciple is from His lips.
So here's what this is going to do for us.
First, it's going to give us as a church a shared definition and description of what a disciple of Jesus really is.
So we, at one point, as a church, we can say, okay, we're all on the same page of what a disciple is now.
Secondly, what that will do is help each of us assess our lives in light of what Jesus says a disciple is.
So all of us this morning need to ask a very basic question.
When we hear what Jesus says is a disciple, each of us needs to ask, am I that kind of disciple?
Have I responded to that call?
That, all of that call?
Thirdly, what this will do is it's going to help us move forward as a church.
Because think of your life groups as packs of 21st disciples, century disciples following Jesus together.
And so when we have a common definition of what a disciple is, now we can help each other move towards Jesus together.
And finally, this is going to help us know how to call people who are outside of the church, living in darkness right now,
what we must say to them so that they too can become followers of Jesus.
So if you would, please, if you haven't already, open your Bibles to Mark chapter 8, verses 27 through 38.
I'm going to read this for us.
Hear God's word.
This is the very words of God.
And Jesus went on with his disciples to the villages of Caesarea Philippi.
And on the way, he asked his disciples, who do people say that I am?
And they told him, John the Baptist, and others say Elijah, and others, one of the prophets.
And Jesus asked his disciples, but who do you say, who do you say that I am?
Peter answered him, you are the Christ.
And Jesus strictly charged them to tell no one about him.
That's interesting.
Verse 31, and he began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things
and be rejected by the elders and chief priests and the scribes and be killed.
And after three days, rise again.
And he said this plainly.
And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him.
But turning and seeing his disciples, Jesus rebuked Peter and said,
Get behind me, Satan, for you're not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of man.
And calling the crowd to him with his disciples, Jesus said to them,
If anyone would come after me, here it is, he is now defining what a disciple is.
If anyone would come after me.
He, he, for if anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.
For whoever would save his life will lose it.
But whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospels will save it.
For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul?
For what can a man give in return for his soul?
For whoever is ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation,
of him will the son of man also be ashamed when he comes in the glory of his father and with the holy angels.
May God bless the speaking and hearing of his words.
This morning I want to walk you through kind of four steps, four points.
You'll see it on your bulletin.
Now I know the font on the back of your bulletin is really small.
If you just want to listen and follow along, that's fine.
But I'm going to make four moves so that we can answer the question.
So we can hear Jesus answer the question,
What is a disciple?
First, we see in this passage a Q&A with Jesus.
A question and answer time with Jesus.
Verses 27 through 30.
Jesus has brought his disciples to Caesarea Philippi.
They've been working together for some time.
His disciples have been seeing Jesus do amazing things.
And you've got to know that Caesarea Philippi,
This is like worship center.
There was the worship of Baal that took place in Caesarea Philippi.
The worship of Pan.
The worship of Caesar.
It was the Roman cult city.
So it's very interesting that Jesus would turn to his disciples and say,
In this town of worship,
Who are people saying that I am?
He's asking his disciples what other people think.
It's like he's taking a poll.
And his disciples respond in verse 28,
Well, some people think that you're John the Baptist.
Other people are saying that you're Elijah.
Some others are saying you're one of the other prophets.
These are the heavy hitters leading up to Jesus so far.
And then Jesus gets to where he wants to get to.
In verse 29, he asks his disciples,
Who do you say that I am?
Before we go any further,
Imagine that you're in Caesarea Philippi,
And that Jesus is asking you that question.
Who do you say that Jesus is?
When we talk about discipleship to Jesus,
We must begin with Jesus.
Who do you say that Jesus is?
In verse 29, Peter says,
You're the Christ!
Ding, ding, ding, ding!
He's almost right.
Because Jesus, look how he answers,
And he strictly charged them to tell no one about him.
That's kind of surprising.
So, if Peter were right,
Jesus is the Christ,
Wouldn't Jesus want him to declare that to everybody?
Why is Jesus putting the hush on his disciples
After they've said something apparently true?
That he's the Christ?
Well, what we're going to see is that
Jesus knows that Peter and the disciples,
They don't have a full understanding
Of what the Christ has come to do.
And so, that brings me to the second point.
An important messianic clarification.
Jesus, in verse 31,
Is seeking to correct his disciples
In a misunderstanding of the Christ.
You've got to be clear on who Jesus the Christ is
In order to know how to respond to him.
And so, here's what I want you to see right now.
In verse 29, Peter says,
You are the Christ.
And then in verse 31,
Mark summarizes what Jesus says.
He says,
And he began to teach them
That the Son of Man must suffer
And he must be rejected and be killed
And three days rise again.
And so, what Jesus is doing
Is he's using a title,
Son of Man,
That equals the title Christ.
It's just two different ways of saying
The Messiah.
And so, if you look in your Bible
In Mark chapter 9,
Verse 31,
Jesus refers to himself as the Son of Man.
The Son of Man is going to be delivered
Into the hands of men
And they will kill him
And when he's killed,
After three days, he will rise.
And then if you flip the page,
Chapter 10, verse 33,
Jesus says,
See, we are going up to Jerusalem
And the Son of Man
Will be delivered over to the chief priests
And the scribes
And they will condemn him to death
And deliver him over to the Gentiles
And they will mock him
And spit on him
And flog him
And kill him
And after three days,
He will rise.
Jesus is making a clarification
On the Christ,
The Son of Man.
If you flip back on your Bibles,
To Daniel chapter 7,
If you kind of flip to the middle of your Bible
And you're in the Psalm,
Just start going right.
Go past Jeremiah and Ezekiel
And you will find Daniel.
Daniel chapter 7,
Daniel has these night visions.
And in verse 13 and 14,
We read this.
I saw in the night visions
And behold,
With the clouds of heaven
There came one like a
Son of Man.
And he came to the Ancient of Days
And was presented before him
And to him,
The Son of Man
Was given dominion and glory
And a kingdom
That all people's nations
And languages
Should serve him.
His dominion is not
An everlasting dominion
Which shall not pass away
And his kingdom
One that shall not be destroyed.
So when Peter's thinking
About the Christ,
He's thinking,
Uh-huh,
Here comes the dominion, baby.
The Christ is coming
To knock out Rome.
We're going to get our nation back.
And Jesus is saying,
The Christ didn't come
To establish his kingdom
That way.
Not by force,
Not by war horse.
Jesus is saying,
I have come,
The Christ has come,
The Son of Man has come
To establish his kingdom
Through suffering,
Rejection,
Being killed,
And being raised from the dead.
Here's why this is significant.
Robin,
Would you pull up
The,
That masterpiece of art?
Remember,
The cross
Is at the center of it all.
The cross
Is the thing
By which God
Poured out his grace
To accomplish
His unifying purposes.
The Christ,
Did you see that word must?
The Christ must suffer
In order to fulfill
God's big plan
For all time.
To establish his kingdom
In his everlasting dominion.
It had to happen this way.
You see,
The cross
Is central
To God's plan
Of making disciples
Of all nations.
It must happen.
It's a very important
Messianic clarification.
It's at the cross
That God's power
Is poured out.
And it's that
Gracious power
That delivers
A sinner
Living in the domain
Of darkness
And transfers
And transforms
That sinner
Into a saint
A child of God
Living in
The kingdom of light.
What's interesting
Is in verse 32
Peter rebukes Jesus.
Jesus,
You don't want
To be talking like that.
You got a crowd here,
Jesus.
Don't miss it.
You don't really mean that,
Do you, Jesus?
Jesus.
You're not going
To be crucified.
You're not going
To be killed.
And then Jesus
Rebukes Peter.
He says,
Get behind me, Satan.
Satan's the deceiver.
The distorter.
And he says,
Peter,
You don't have
The things of God
On your mind.
You've got the things
Of man.
You know what
Peter was doing?
Peter
Was wanting to be,
Wanting Jesus to be
The Christ
Of his own liking.
He wanted
The Christ
To be
To be the deliverer
Of his preference.
This is what we need
Right now.
And Jesus is saying,
No, no.
The Christ
Has come
To establish
His kingdom
By forgiving people.
By transforming people.
By a powerful work
Of his grace.
By a powerful work
It's a very important
Messianic clarification.
And by the way,
Jesus doesn't reject
What we read in Daniel
Chapter 7
13 through 14.
That shows up
In verse 38.
When Jesus comes back
In glory.
We've seen a Q&A
With Jesus.
We've seen this important
Messianic clarification.
Discipleship to Jesus
Must begin with the real Jesus.
The real Jesus.
Not the Christ
Of our own liking
Or our own likeness.
And it's from there
That he makes the call.
If you look at verse
Back in Mark chapter 8
Verse 34
He's just rebuked
Peter
And calling the crowd
To him
With his disciples
He said to them
This is where
He answers the question
What is a disciple?
And this call
In verse 34
Contains three commands
Deny himself
Take up his cross
Follow me
They're commands
They're requirements
And so Jesus says
In verse 34
The invitation goes
Out to all
If anyone would come
After me
Let him
Better said
He must
Deny himself
And take up his cross
And follow me
We've got to be clear
On what Jesus
Is saying right here
We all got to get
On the same page
Of what Jesus means
By a disciple
So let me give this a shot
Let's take those two commands
Of this call first
Let him deny himself
And take up
Take up his cross
When Jesus says
He must deny himself
What Jesus is talking about
Is giving up
Renouncing
A self-centered
Way of life
That lives for this
Present world
That's what he's talking about
He's talking about
You need
To renounce
Deny
A life
In which you
Every morning
Those living in the domain
Of darkness
They pull up this flag
Of self
And that flag of self
Doesn't have like
Your picture on it
It has things like
Living for accomplishment
Where
Every morning
Your
People get into this
Thinking that
I'm living for
Some kind of award
Or acknowledgement today
I'm living for a GPA
I'm living for a degree
I'm living for a promotion
I'm living to be right
And what it is
Is some kind of living
Actually for yourself
And the lie is
That this present world
Is all that there is
Jesus says
You need to deny yourself
You've got to deny
That
And Jesus goes on to say
Not only do you
Have to deny yourself
You need to take up
Your cross
Jesus is speaking this
In Caesarea Philippi
Everybody who heard
Jesus say this
Would know
Exactly
They would have
A picture in their mind
Of someone
Who's been convicted
By Rome
To death
And after their conviction
They would need to
Walk
The walk of shame
To the place
Of their crucifixion
And do you know
What they'd have to be carrying
Their own cross
Rome has come in
And said
You do not have
Any more rights
To self-determination
We will determine
That for you
If denying yourself
Is renouncing
A self-centered
Living of your life
For this present world
This call to die
This call to
Take up your cross
Is laying down
Your right
To self-determination
I call my own shots
I decide where I go
Jesus is not pulling
Any punches here
And be clear
That these are not
Suggestions
What he's doing
Is this call
To deny yourself
This call
To take up your cross
It is a call
To lay down
Your life
For Jesus
And it is
Essential
To following Jesus
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Who wrote the book
Cost of Discipleship
Which everybody
In the room
Should have
He is known
For saying
When Christ calls
A man
He calls him
He bids him
Come and die
I want
I want to help you
Ask a question
Right now
And you might be
A little embarrassed
To ask it yourself
So I'll ask it
For you
But let me give you
A little kind of
Humorous kind of
Account of it first
This particular question
Back in 1992
Yours truly
Was a 20 year old
Guy
I literally
My frontal lobe
Hadn't been developed
Yet
So I literally
Thought in six
Hour increments
I'm just thinking
Six hours out
Well summer of 1992
I'm in New Jersey
With a bunch of
Other young Christians
We're seeking to
Follow Jesus together
It
The summer
Rocked
And I'm living
In six hour increments
And so this is
This is early August
Summer of 92
My friend Andy
And I
Loving the Lord
We get in our minds
Let's get Mohawks
And I'm not talking
Fowhawk
I'm talking
Mohawk
So we asked another
Buddy of ours
Hey man
Will you
Mohawk us
And I came out
With a great
Mohawk
It was awesome
I called my mom
Mom I
I got a Mohawk
And then she says
Something to the extent
Who do you think you are?
Because
My brother
Had asked me
To be his best man
At his wedding
On Labor Day weekend
That September
Six hour
My frontal lobe
Had not been developed
I had no
Who do you think you are?
I wasn't even thinking
I
Don't know
That question though
Who do you think you are?
That's the question
I want you to ask
Of Jesus
Because when he says
If anyone would come
After me
And he's talking to you
He must deny himself
And take up his cross
You need to ask
The question
Who do you think
You are?
Jesus
Who do you think
You are
To require that
Of me
To renounce
A self-centered
Self-determined life
Who do you think
You are?
And the answer
To that question
He's the son of man
He's your redeemer
He's your creator
He's your judge
He has every right
In the universe
To call you
To deny yourself
And take up your cross
And follow him
Here's how much
Your savior
Loves you
He will not
Suffer
Any
Rival
In your heart
For him
In his rightful place
You won't suffer it
And so he's saying
If you're going to follow me
If you're going to call me
Master
You've got to renounce
All other masters
And you're
You're
You're your biggest challenge
What Jesus is talking about here
In this
Deny himself
And take up your cross
We can call this
Repentance
It's turning from
Your old way of living
In order to
Turn
To Jesus
It's saying no
To your former way of life
Living in darkness
Living for what
People living in darkness
Live for
And you renounce that
I
I'm not living that way anymore
Because I'm living for Jesus now
We can sum this up in
Jesus saying
Lay down your life
If you're going to come after me
You must
Lay down your life
And for those of us
This begins
At conversion
When we hear the gospel
For the first time
God's grace
Lights us up
We realize
Who Jesus is
What he has done
And we're like
Yes
I will follow you
You lay down your life
You have no rights
It's a response
To his extraordinary grace
And then for every day
After that
You're laying down your life
This
Is the way
Of following Jesus
That last command
And follow me
He must
Deny himself
Take up his cross
And follow me
I
We tend
As Christians
To want to
Just say
Follow me
Jesus is calling you
To follow me
And we leave out
The deny part
And to take up
Your cross part
We can't do that
Jesus doesn't do that
That's not loving people
But
In order to follow Jesus
You must
First
Lay down your life
But when we get to
This command
Follow me
It's easy
To keep it vague
Jesus says
Follow me
I'll follow you
Whatever you say
Jesus I'll do it
Most of the time
I want to help you
Think through
A little bit more
About what Jesus
Means by follow me
First thing is
To follow Jesus
Means to learn
From Jesus
To
To listen
To his words
And to look
At his way of life
Back
In the first century
When disciples
Followed their rabbis
Disciples
Disciples would
Follow their rabbis
Not simply just
To hear the truth
Of their words
Disciples
Followed rabbis
To see how the rabbis
Lived out
The truth
Of their words
When Jesus says
Follow me
He's calling you
To a whole new
Way of life
The best place
To see
Jesus
To hear his words
To see his way
Of life
In your Bible
Are the gospels
Gospel after gospel
You hear
The words
Of Jesus
You see
The way he
Engaged with people
That's your savior
That's your master
That's the one
Who's calling you
To follow him
That's who you're
Learning from
To follow Jesus
Means first and foremost
To learn
From Jesus
But
To follow Jesus
Doesn't end
With learning
From Jesus
As though
Discipleship's
Just a classroom
We learn
From Jesus
In order to
Live for Jesus
We learn
From Jesus
To live
For Jesus
In Matthew 11
Jesus says
Come to me
All you who are
We are in heaven
Layden
I will give you rest
He says
Verse 29
Take my yoke
Upon you
And learn from me
For I am
Meek and lowly
Of heart
That yoke
Is a great picture
Of discipleship
We are to be
Yoked
To Jesus
To learn from him
To walk
With him
In his ways
We live
For Jesus
We don't learn
From Jesus
And that's it
We learn from Jesus
In order to
Live for Jesus
We take in his words
To live out his words
We make it our aim
To please him
It informs the way we live
He has poured out
His extravagant grace
Through the cross
And now we get
To live this
Radical discipleship
To Jesus
Learning from him
In order to live
For him
And it's in order
To become like Jesus
We learn from him
To live for him
To become like him
In your living out
Of what you are learning
You become like him
You think like him
You speak like him
You engage others
Like him
You get angry
At what he gets angry at
You delight
In what he delights in
You become like him
There's this great passage
In the apostle Paul
In 2nd Corinthians
Chapter 3
The apostle Paul
The apostle Paul writes
This
And we all
With unveiled face
Beholding the glory
Of the Lord
Beholding the glory
Of the Lord
Are being transformed
Into the same image
Becoming like him
From one degree
Of glory to another
For this comes
From the Lord
Who is the spirit
How do we behold
The glory of the Lord
Chapter 4 verse 6
For God who said
Let light shine out
Of darkness
Has shown in our hearts
To give the light
Of the knowledge
Of the glory
Of God
In the face
Of Jesus Christ
We learn from him
To become like him
We learn
We live
We become like
So what is a disciple
A disciple
Is anyone
Who by God's grace
Is laying down
Their life
To learn from
Live for
And become like Jesus
All because we love him
His love for us
And his transforming grace
It fuels our love
For him
And we live that love out
By laying down
Our lives
Learning from him
Living for him
And over time
Becoming like him
Brothers and sisters
That's his call
On your life today
If any of you
Would come after him
You must lay down
Your life
And learn from him
To live for him
To become like him
In verses 35 through 38
Jesus gives us
His cost benefit analysis
This is a big call
And in verses 35 through 38
Jesus says
This is why it's worth it
Remember
Who's speaking here
The creator
Redeemer
And judge
Is speaking here
He's doing the math
For us
If you know
The scale
Of what he's calling us to
Jesus is saying
This is why
It's worth it
I'm worth it
Jesus says
In verse 35
For whoever
Would save his life
And what he's talking
About there is
Whoever is trying
To live a self-centered
Life for this
Present world
Who's trying to
Live this self-determined
Life out
That is essentially
Saying no to me
You lose it
There's no salvation
In that
But whoever
Loses his life
Whoever lays down
His life
For him
For the gospel's sake
He's saved
Grace
Has come home
Only those
Who have experienced
The extraordinary
Grace of God
Will respond
In such a radical way
He goes into
This cost-benefit analysis
35, 36, and 37
And it's in verse 38
Though
That he changes
The language
And he starts talking
About being ashamed
For whoever
Is ashamed of me
And of my words
In this adulterous
And sinful generation
We're living
In that generation
We're living
In the domain
Of darkness
For whoever
Is ashamed of me
What Jesus is saying
There's whoever
Who is choosing
Not to deny themselves
And take up their cross
To follow me
Whoever's insisting
On their own way
He says
Of him
Will the son of man
Daniel 7, 13, and 14
Also be ashamed of
When he comes in the glory
Of his father
With the holy angels
It's a warning
Of judgment
When he comes
Who you choose
Now matters
What Jesus is saying
You've got a choice
To make
Between living
Your life for you
And living your life
For Jesus
And for Jesus
The decision
Is very clear
Live for me
And live
So what is
A disciple
Of Jesus
According to Jesus
Anyone
Who's done the math
Who by God's grace
Is laying down
Their life
To learn from
Live for
And become
Like Jesus
Because you love him
You can think about it
In four L's
Lay it down
Learn from Jesus
Live for Jesus
Become like Jesus
All out of
A love for Jesus
This
This amazing grace
Poured out at the cross
It results
In a radical discipleship
To Jesus
For those of us
Who have come to know him
We've realized
He's the treasure hidden
In the field
And you sell
Everything you have
To have that
Let me just hit
A couple implications
And we'll be done
Here's what this means
For us as a church
As a church
Now we have
A common
Definition
Of what a disciple
Is
According to Jesus
Someone who
By God's grace
Is laying down
Their life
In order to learn
From
Live for
Become like
Jesus
Out of a love
For him
We've got that
Now
We need to unite
Around it
We need to own it
And we can't
Conveniently
Leave out
The
Deny yourself
And take up
Your cross
Part
Nor can we
Stay vague
On the
Follow me
Part
We've got to
Be clear
Secondly
You need to ask
Yourself this
Morning
Am I a disciple
Of Jesus
According to
His definition
Let me help you
With that
Have you laid
Down your life
For him
When
Are you
Learning from
Jesus
What
Are you
Living for
Jesus
Where
Are you
Becoming like
Jesus
How
Assess
Yourself
Maybe today
You've realized
It's been a long
Time since I
Have said
I'm laying my
Life down for
You Jesus
Every morning
Early on
I'm making a
Statement
I'm saying
Something to
The extent of
Lord Jesus
My life is
Not my own
You've bought
Me
At a price
I am gladly
Yours today
You join me
Every day
Laying down
Your life
For Jesus
This gives us
To
A way to
Move forward
Together
It gives us
A common
Way of
Talking about
Discipleship
So that in
Our life
Groups
We can
Talk with
One another
About
You know
What
Last week
I didn't
Lay down
My life
Until
Friday
Or
You can
Say
Hey man
I am
Seeing
Jesus
In you
Brother
Keep on
Pressing on
I
Had a
Conversation
With a
Sister
This past
Week
And
Her life
Dramatically
Changed
In 2008
And I
Was able
To tell
Her
You've
Been
Changed
I can
See
It
We get
To help
Each other
Follow
Jesus
And of
Course
This helps
Us
Know how
To tell
Others
About
Jesus
And not
Leave out
The small
Print
But to
Say to
People
If you
Understand
Who
Jesus
Is
And what
He's
Done
The
Response
Is
Radical
To deny
Yourself
And take
Up
Your
Cross
And to
Follow
Him
We talked
About
Conviction
One
Why make
Disciples
Jesus
All around
The globe
Is making
Disciples
And today
We talked
About
Conviction
Two
What is a
Disciple
Next week
We get
To talk
About
How to
Make
Disciples
Let me
Pray
God in
Heaven
Lord Jesus
Thank you
So much
That you
Are a
Risen
Lord
You are
Our
Creator
Our
Redeemer
And our
Judge
And this
Call that
We're
Reading
About
Is your
Call
On us
Today
And we
Say yes
To you
Lord
Jesus
We gladly
Lay our
Lives down
We want
To learn
From you
We want
To live
For you
We want
To be
Like you
We want
To love
You more
Make it
So Lord
Jesus
It's in
Your precious
Name we
Pray
Amen