As long as God is not the focus, the Holy Spirit is not free to express himself.

Dr Tony Evans says churchgoers only looking to better themselves won't even find that.

If all you do is come for you,

you're actually blocking the spirit from changing you.

This is the alternative with Dr. Tony Evans, author, speaker, senior pastor of Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship

in Dallas, Texas and president of the Urban Alternative. Dr Evans believes that making and multiplying disciples should be a key priority for every church.

Today he talks about four key elements that should be a part of every congregation's discipleship experience.

Let's join him as he begins.

Our series is on discipleship.

Discipleship is that process of the local church that seeks to bring believers from spiritual

infancy to spiritual maturity so that they are able to repeat the process with someone else. God's goal is for you to

become a disciple and then become a discipler. That because you are a visual verbal follower of Christ, he wants you to

replicate that in the life of someone else. At the heart of this emphasis of discipleship is the atmosphere that the spirit of

God is free to express himself in.

The question is, is God's spirit at home in this house.

Because if God's spirit, the third member of the Trinity,

is not at home in this house, nothing will change.

Because his job is to bring about the change.

In Acts Chapter 2 we have the origin of the church.

Acts Chapter 2 is where the church came into being.

It is the first church in Jerusalem.

We're told in Acts chapter 2, verse 4,

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