How do you know you’re growing as a disciple of Jesus?
Ask the Pastor with J.D. Greear
J.D. Greear
4.8 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 8 March 2021
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Pastor J.D. shares five identities of a disciple—worshiper, family member, servant, steward, witness.
A glimpse inside this episode:
At our church, we’ve really made this a big emphasis this year. Jesus called us to make disciples, and that means teaching people how to follow Jesus and live the life of a Jesus follower.
We’ve been walking through 5 identities of a disciple:
- Worshiper
- Daily time with God. Quiet time.
- Regular church attendance.
- Servant
- How do you approach your life, job, relationships, etc? What’s your attitude?
- Volunteer/serve in church and/or community.
- Family Member
- Belonging in membership and community, specifically.
- Steward
- How do you treat your money? Is generosity part of your life?
- Witness
- Who’s your one?
- Go on a mission trip.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Lifeway Leadership Podcast Network. |
| 0:04.6 | Hi, everybody, welcome. |
| 0:17.6 | Ask me anything. |
| 0:19.0 | I'm here with Pastor J.B. Greer. And Pastor Jay Everybody welcome. Ask me anything. Honest question. |
| 0:22.9 | I'm here with Pastor J.D. |
| 0:23.4 | Career. |
| 0:29.5 | And Pastor J.D., we have a question that, you know, by God's grace the last few weeks at Summit, |
| 0:31.3 | we've actually seen a lot of people come to Christ. |
| 0:31.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:36.2 | This past weekend, we have over 300 that indicated first-time professions of faith. |
| 0:36.9 | That's unbelievable. |
| 0:39.1 | So the question that we ask ourselves, I feel like that a lot of churches ask us that when somebody comes to faith is, |
| 0:43.1 | you know, what's next? And so the question today is, J.D., what are the five absolutes of being |
| 0:48.9 | a disciple of Jesus? So why do you think there are five, Matt? What, what? Yeah. Why is that question there are five? |
| 0:56.2 | There have to be five. First of all, you just want to make it interesting. You know the five is like an |
| 0:59.9 | interesting number, but, but JD, I know you've been, I know you've been talking about this a lot |
| 1:03.6 | recently, so I figured I would set you up a little bit. So this question feels is going to be five, but what are they? Yes. Yeah, well, no, so we, |
| 1:11.9 | last couple years ago, we really kind of prayed through, studied the scriptures of what the |
| 1:18.0 | five essential identities of a disciple were. I don't want to say these are exhaustive, but these are |
| 1:23.9 | the ones that I think would provide really good categories for how to think of what it means to follow Jesus. |
| 1:29.8 | You know, when when Jesus says to us, just like he did to people 2,000 years ago, take up your cross and follow me. |
| 1:35.7 | He means absolute surrender. He means to accept the Great Commission. |
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