You see, loving someone is a lot different than simply being an enthusiastic admirer of that person.
He who does not love Me does not keep My words” (John 14:23, 24). He doesn’t do them.īut Jesus said, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word. But then he doesn’t do anything with them. Aren’t they so inspirational?” He might even have some of them hanging from a wall in his house. There is no sacrifice he has to make.” (Not a Fan, p. He yells and cheers, but nothing is really required of him. He knows all about the players and can rattle off their latest stats, but he doesn’t know the players. He never breaks a sweat or takes the hard hit in the open field. He’s got a signed jersey hanging on his wall at home and multiple bumper stickers on the back of his car. He sits in the stands and cheers for his team. “It’s the guy,” he says, “who goes to the football game with no shirt and a painted chest. He says, if you look up the word in the dictionary, you’ll find that a fan is usually defined as “an enthusiastic admirer.”
And in the book, Idleman defines what a fan is. Several years ago, we did a Lenten book study of this book, by Kyle Idleman, called Not a Fan.
A disciple is a follower of Jesus, not just a fan of Jesus. But I’ve also given you the outline so that you can take notes and do a little bit of active listening this morning, because this is an extremely important topic.ġ. So are you and I disciples? Well, what is a disciple? What does it look like to be a disciple of Christ? Well, that’s what I’d like to outline for you this morning, in ten points, which after the first one will be very short and summary, so don’t get worried that I’m going to go on for an hour. Riches once said, “No man can give to another what he himself does not have.” You see, it takes disciples to make disciples. It was those who walked with Him for three years, who stumbled and fell, and who were often confused and dejected, but who finally came to be true followers of Him. Whes Jesus gave His Great Commission to “Go make disciples of all nations, baptizing them.and teaching them all things I have commanded,” who was He talking to? He was talking to His disciples. And I hope you’ll fully apply your hearts and minds to what I’ll have to say.īut before we can even think about how we as a parish can make disciples for Christ in any way, we have to ask the question, Are you and I disciples of Christ? We cannot help in the process of making disciples if we are not disciples ourselves. So that will be my task during Lent: to outline for you, in a fairly uncomplicated way, what that Classical Anglican Way of making disciples is. We won’t do a very good job of fulfilling that mission if we don’t know what the Classical Anglican Way of making disciples of Christ is.
#TREASURED TEETH MONTROSE SERIES#
Stephen’s Anglican Church: Making Disciples for Christ in the Classical Anglican Way.” And as promise, today I’m going to begin a Lenten series of sermons on just what that means: what it means to make disciples for Christ in the Classical Anglican Way. Stephen’s that states the mission that we have adopted for our parish: “St. So as I reminded us last Sunday, we have a plaque on the table below the Cross Wall here at St.
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