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 265, the activated disciple retreat, a cup of Karrigma.

Thank you for joining me again this week in the middle of our our Lenton retreat.

We decided that we would take the show and make a retreat out of it during the 40 days of of Lent all around the topic of becoming activated disciples.

It's a retreat based on my newest book with ascension press, the activated disciple, put that in the show notes for you.

But hey, we're having a good time and I appreciate your feedback and I appreciate all of the stories that you're giving me about how it's making a difference in your life and you know trying to build a life.

That's what we're doing. We don't just want to believe about Jesus but we want to follow Him as the early disciples did.

And if you're going to do that, you really have to have an action plan. What does it look like? How are you going to go about it?

That's what we've been covering so far. We took a look at the first time together in a show called fan or follower to take a look at, am I just a fan of Jesus or am I a follower?

And then we looked at the foundation of discipleship way back in the book of Leviticus on show two and imitating God.

And then who's choosing whom in number three, the third show, that's what we really got into the, you know, the details of, you know, how do you become a disciple of the Lord?

And we went back into 2000 years ago, back into the relationship between a rabbi and a disciple in Jesus day and found out you got to be chosen.

You don't just stand up and say, I'm the disciple of a great rabbi, you got to be chosen by the rabbi and the criteria there is does that rabbi think you can become like him?

And apparently Jesus thinks that you can become like him because he chose you.

Then going all in, we're taking a look at the life of a disciple in light of the church. And then last week we were, we took a look at prayer and study in the life of a disciple.

Today I am so excited to share with you one of my favorite aspects of being a disciple of the Lord, an aspect I would say that is not done so well so often.

And that is, that is evangelization sharing Christ with other people. How do you do it? What's the message of the gospel? What's the proclamation?

I'm going to go through all that with you today. And by the time we're done, you're going to be a new person. You're least you're going to be equipped to go out there and share Christ with other people.

Hey, the last two weeks I have been telling you and some of you wrote me about this, which I appreciate. I've been telling you that I was going to share with you my plan, my five year plan on how your parish can double in five years.

So I'm going to do that on today's show. I hope no, I'm going to I'm going to do that towards the end of the show. I'm going to share with you how your parish can double in five years. It is a proven method.

And I think you're going to like it. Okay. Before we jump in, by the way, just got a phone call from some good friends of mine who asked, is there still room on your June trip to Israel?

To the Holy Land. Yes, there is. And they're going and there still are a few seats left. If you want to go, you got to do it now, though.

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