Discipleship

Making disciples who make disciples who make disciples is our commission as followers of Jesus, as sons and daughters of God. In fact it’s not only our mission, but our birthright. Multiplying missional disciples in the context of spiritual family is how we go about our Father’s business of proclaiming the good news and extending His kingdom.

A disciple at Gloria Dei is one who seeks Christ first in all things in community, which means we are:

Devoted and obedient

Disciples are devoted to God, to one another, and live a life marked by obedience as they intently listen for His voice in community. We see God’s Word, the Bible, as the primary truth in our lives. We seek to grow in understanding it and living it out. We abide each day in Jesus and let the Holy Spirit lead us on a life of mission. (Mark 12:30-31, John 10:27, John 14:15, Acts 2:42, Mark 3:35, Gal. 5:25)

Loving and serving

Disciples love God, each other, and serve their neighbors as they become an incarnational presence of Jesus where they live, work, and play. Serving others is a great thing, and there are plenty of opportunities to do so in our society today. But, it is the love of Jesus pouring through us as His disciples that sets apart our service of others. When we love and serve, we bring a piece of heaven to earth; wrong things are being made right. Jesus set the example of serving and proclaiming the good news of the kingdom, so we do the same. (Mark 12:30-31, Luke 10:1, John 13:1-17)

Discipled and discipling

Disciples make disciples who make more disciples as they live fruitful lives that multiply into a kingdom movement that changes the world. In our lives as Jesus's disciples, we don’t believe we ever reach the end until we enter eternal life or Jesus returns on the last day. Our life is a continuing process of growing in both the character and competencies of Jesus as we live in both wisdom and power. It is an apprentice-model of life-on-life, on-the-go training, as we grow in imitating the words, works, and ways of Jesus. As we ourselves are discipled, we then are empowered to train and disciple others to do the same. (Matt. 28:18-21, Luke 9:1-6, Luke 10:1-9)

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Live Fully Alive! 5-Week Experience
Begins OCT 23! 9:45-10:45am Sundays | Discipleship Hour

You were created for much more! You were created to LIVE FULLY ALIVE. This is a promise Jesus makes in the Bible to anyone who will receive it: “I came that they might have LIFE, and have it to the FULL.” Signing-up for this 5-week experience to grow in INTIMACY and INFLUENCE will help you step into a FULLY ALIVE LIFE! Registration is important as this experience is a course designed to be started and completed. We will gather from 9:45am - 10:45am every Sunday from OCT. 23 - NOV 20. This experience is led by Jason Phelps, Discipling Director.

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Sunday Discipleship Hour
9:45-10:45am

In order to equip and train you to grow and live out your faith as a disciple, we have dedicated time on Sunday mornings for engaging with God’s Word in community with age-appropriate ministry environments for kids, students and adults between services from 9:45-10:45am. Sunday morning Discipleship Hour is meant to be a primer catapulting us back into our daily lives as every-day missionaries where we live, work, learn, and play.

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Small Groups
Throughout the Week

Discipleship happens within the context of community and living life together. There is a depth of learning that can only happen when we have people to imitate. The early Church had a rhythm of life together between the temple (Sunday mornings) and the home as they ate together, cared for one another, and met the needs of their community. Small Groups are our primary context for living life together on mission.

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