Disciple

healthy body”. A healthy body is more active, and have more energy to be active; correspondingly a healthy church is more active reproducing disciples. The intent of this paper show the goal of a healthy church is to make reproduce disciples. A Healthy Church the Goal for Discipleship Before the church can start on the road to making disciples, the congregation must be healthy, not physically healthy but spiritually healthy. Can a person be spiritually healthy…

contribution to the film, and for people who may not be following the text while watching the movie. Altogether, I believe that the slight adjustments made in the film are beneficial to understanding who Jesus is and the effect He had on not only His disciples, but also all of the other people living at that…

beatitudes of Matthew 5, clearly identifies the characteristics needed of a disciple that obviously mimic Christ and His ministry. Hull’s approach to defining discipleship was based upon the perspective failings of the church here in the 21st century. In essence, Sanders greatly expands upon what a disciple is, and what is required, while Hull specifies what needs to be done by the church in creating leaders and true disciples in modern times, and in light of a predominantly secular world…

Vision Statement The North American Lutheran Church understands and acts on discipleship as the core conviction upon which all of its values are based. Every pastor and congregational leader share a deep and abiding commitment to follow Jesus as a disciple and to lead others to do the same. There is clarity and consistency in our definition and understanding of discipleship according to the scriptures and Jesus interaction with His first followers. Discipleship is a process, empowered…

and Buddhism spread both differently and the same. The two were the same because they both were a runoff of another religion. They both were open for people to convert from another religion, they both creators had their religion spread by their disciples after their death, and they both spread through trade and peaceful contact. A major difference was that Christianity and Hinduism originated from different places. Also Christianity spread through the downfall of the Roman Empire and later on…

would begin preaching. John the Baptist was warning people that the kingdom of heaven is at hand and the messiah was coming. John the Baptist believed that Jesus was the Messiah. After being baptized Jesus began his ministry and gathered his 12 disciples. Jesus went to town to town preaching in synagogues and performing miracles. I would like to see the video go into more detail of the story of Jesus’s birth. The story about the angel from the Lord telling Mary that she will have a child and the…

Christian Mission is like the journey to the Promised Land. In Matthew 28, Jesus commanded the disciples to “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 Jesus will “be with disciples always, to the very end of the age.”(Matthew 28:19) Jesus commanded us to go and make disciples for him from all nations. It is…

The story of Horus Horus was born on December 25th of a virgin. His birth was concurrent with a star in the east, three kings came to locate and worship the new savior. When he was 30 he was baptized and began his preaching. Horus had 12 disciples he. Horus was known as The Truth, The Light, the Good Shepherd, The Lamb of God, and others. After being betrayed, Horus was crucified, buried for three days and then resurrected. We don’t know if the myth was created by the Egyptians or if it was…

This miracles recorded in three of the Gospels (Mat 14:22-36; Mark 6:45-56: John 6:16-21) and it was this miracle that, more than any other, "convinced Jesus's disciples that He was indded the Son of God. We could see that in the expression of the disciples in Matthew 14:32-33. In other words, this particular miracle gives the disciples a new revelation about the person of Christ compared to what they saw in the miracle of Jesus feeding the five thousand, healing the sick people, or cast out…

In the opening scene of the film, Rosenberg depicts Luke destroying the city’s parking meters. The parking meters are a metaphor of society’s rules and restrictions. Rosenberg communicates how society tries to clamp down on individuals and make individuals conform to rules and regulations. Luke removing the tops of the meters is a metaphor for Jesus Christ. Similar to how Jesus broke the rules and customs of his society by not conforming to the high priests, Luke does the same by refusing to…