Welcome to the Jeff Kaven show where we talk about the Bible, discipleship and evangelization putting it all together and living as activated disciples.

This is episode 263, the activated disciple retreat going all in.

Welcome back to the retreat over Lent, my friend. It's good to have you. We are doing something so different with the show during Lent this year.

We are focusing on becoming activated disciples, becoming disciples who are really, really going to that next level with the Lord.

We're going to get into it today and this one's called going all in. We're going to look at the process that we go through or others would go through to become part of the bride of Christ.

I think you'll find it enlightening and perhaps you can get involved and you can get involved in not only in your RCIA program at your church, but you can be a sponsor of somebody coming in to the church.

Hey, before we get going today, just a quick reminder, there's still places open on my June trip to the Holy Land.

You can go to my website, Jeffcavens.com. I'll put it in the show notes. We have some room there and we also have room in the fall in October when we go, we go to Turkey and Greece and we're going to look at the footsteps of Paul.

You know, and see what he did and walk those steps. It's going to be a lot of fun. I'm really looking forward to it and those are the two trips coming up this year. I'll put that in the show note.

Hey, the book that I'm taking this retreat from is a book that I wrote for ascension press and it's called the activated disciple taking your faith to the next level.

You can get that at ascensionpress.com. For those of you that already got it, you're going to see that I'm following that book pretty well and trying to cover at least the important points for this particular retreat.

You know, it's important to remember what a retreat really is a retreat really is about about going to the next level.

You know, taking a good look at where you're at and you're walk with God right now and then making the changes that are necessary to go to that new level.

And that's what we're trying to do. By the way, we do have an outline for this entire retreat and you can get that in the show notes, put that in the show notes.

I think it's on ascension's website as well. And then every lesson I give you three things to think about as you prepare for the next lesson.

You kind of go over some of the material that I've been discussing and then prepare yourself for the next lesson.

But the goal, the whole thing is that you would become like Christ and that your whole life would change as a result of that.

And you would really live the life that you kind of dream of walking with the Lord on a daily basis.

And I can tell you in complete and utter transparency, honesty, I am having the time of my life right now.

Just being in God's word every day and teaching you and spending the time together, I'm enjoying this so much.

I enjoy your company so much. And I would just encourage you kind of thought about this at the last second here.

You know, share it with your friends. Tell your friends about this. They can go back and listen to the earlier ones.

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