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 267, the activated disciple retreat, the 40-day challenge.

And here we are, post-resurrection. I hope you had a wonderful Easter. I'm Jeff Kaven, and it's always good to get together with you on a weekly basis to talk about everything, discipleship, everything, Bible.

And what it means to walk with Jesus on a daily basis, and I got to tell you this last week was very, very exciting.

And I had the opportunity to sponsor a young man coming into the church. I'll talk about that in just a little bit. Have you ever sponsored somebody to come into the Catholic church?

That's something to think about. And a little bit later on in the show today, I'm going to talk about how you might be able to do that next year.

We're going to grow as a church, people like you and me, we have to start sponsoring people and bring them into the church.

We are concluding our activated disciple, Lenton retreat, today's kind of a reflection, and we're going to do a little bit of discussing the activated disciple journal. It's a 40-day challenge that I'm going to invite you to be a part of.

And if you bought the bundle for this entire retreat, you've got the information, and I'm going to explain it, if not, you can still buy the activated disciple book and the activated disciple 40-day challenge journal.

Because you can actually do it any time. We just thought that Lent would be a beautiful time to actually go through and figure out how can we become activated disciples.

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Okay, so today I would like to talk to you about going on a challenge, a 40-day challenge to act like a disciple in your life based on some of the things that we have been talking about over the last six weeks or so.

And then I would like to talk to you about this next year and how you're going to grow the kingdom of God and how you can become a sponsor or some person that right now might not even know that they're going to be brought into the Catholic church the next year, but you are going to be the key for that.

You know, this last six weeks has been a joy for me to be able to talk to you about some of the basics of being a disciple of the Lord and what it means and what's the difference between being what I would call an activated disciple and a cultural Catholic.

Of course, you probably know some of those differences right away that a cultural Catholic oftentimes doesn't know what they are doing, you know, in terms of the mass and what it's about, the papacy, the Blessed Virgin Mary, the concept of the Word of God.

Our life in the Word of God and the Catechism of the Catholic Church, oftentimes people are oblivious to all of these major tools that we have and that's unfortunate because these are the tools that will actually activate you and you can become that disciple that is fruitful in the kingdom of God.

And plus, you get closer to the Lord. It's more of an intimate relationship with the Lord and it's also something that you're being a disciple is something that you can model to the next generation.

And there's nothing like making disciples and walking with Jesus. It's just absolutely wonderful, absolutely wonderful.

Well, we've been talking about whether you are a fan or a follower in the first episode, there's a big difference between being a fan of Jesus and showing up at the conference and listening to his CDs and following them on Facebook.

There's a big difference between that and actually following Jesus on a daily basis. I don't think that there's that many people who just really want to be a fan.

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