Do you just want this relationship where you do the best you can and hope life works out or do you want the relationship where heaven is sitting next to you making the call?

Dr Tony Evans talks about the difference between knowing about the Lord and being a real disciple.

The fact that you took notes, memorized verses, all that's nice, but until it becomes part of your life,

discipleship is not yet in place.

This is the alternative with Dr. Tony Evans,

author, speaker, senior pastor of Oakcliffe Bible Fellowship

in Dallas, Texas, and president of the Urban Alternative.

God has created a wonderful process that turns ordinary people into sold-out Saints.

The Bible calls it discipleship. Today Dr Evans begins a series on that

subject called Followers, not Fans. Let's join him as he starts with a definition of what

discipleship really is.

The cultivation of kingdom people is that process of the local church

to bring Christians from spiritual infancy to spiritual maturity

So that they are then able to replicate the process with someone else

The goal of God's church is not simply to have members. The

goal of God's kingdom is not simply to have citizens, but to have men and women, boys and girls, who have been developed over time into proper

representatives of the on a cloud to heaven, he called a meeting. It is the only scheduled meeting in that 40-day

period recorded in scripture. It was a scheduled meeting and the only one we know about because it's the only

scheduled meeting the Bible talks about. Now he had many meetings but none

scheduled. This meeting was so important that he had to designate the time and the location for the meeting to take place when he rose from the dead.

According to Matthew 2816, it says the 11 disciples met Jesus in Galilee on the mountain in which he had designated.

So it was a defined designated meeting in Galilee at the site of a mountain to meet the risen

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