Discipleship

A simple place to start this month

1. Preach the call plainly. Pick one sermon below and read how it presents following Jesus as a daily cost and a daily joy.
2. Give one next step. Make membership a clear, written path so people know how to move from attending to belonging. The membership toolkit walks you through it.
3. Invite people into habits. Use the spiritual disciplines sermons to teach prayer, Scripture and gathering as practices, not just ideas.
4. Develop the ones who are ready. Short Team Talks help you train volunteers and staff; the pastor development path is for mentoring future pastors over three years.

Sermons on discipleship

56 manuscripts are tagged discipleship. Free to read and adapt.

• Excellence: is our pursuit

  2 Peter 1:3-9

  Because of God's power, promises, and grace, we pursue excellence together in every area and season of life, not for ourselves but for His glory.

• Acts of the Apostles: But, the Church

  Acts 2:40-47

  The early church's devotion to gathering, giving, and growing together in Acts 2 shows what it means to be the church today.

• Bigger Than Us: Prepare The Way

  Numbers 27:15-23

  Like Moses with Joshua, leaving a lasting legacy means praying for, preparing, commissioning, and empowering the next generation.

• Book Of John: John 10

  John 10:1-30

  Staying close to Jesus, our Good Shepherd who is the gate and lays down His life for us, is how we receive His protection and life.

• Book Of John: John 4

  John 4:1-26

  Like Jesus with the Samaritan woman, we're called to invest deeply in a few while inviting everyone to come and see Him.

• Clean House: Let Me Encourage You

  1 Peter 1:1-9

  Even an unlikely, ordinary person like Peter can be used by God because in Christ you are chosen, given a living hope, and being refined.

• Count The Cost: The Call To Discipleship

  Luke 14:25-35

  Following Jesus requires total surrender because He's worth everything.

• Count The Cost: The Disciples Decision

  Matthew 4:18-22

  When Jesus calls, following Him means leaving what is comfortable and familiar, no matter the cost.

• COVID-19 (7): Equip The Saints Part 2

  Ephesians 4:11-16

  Church leaders are given to equip believers with their spiritual gifts so the whole body can grow together into unity and maturity in Christ.

• Family Matters: A Rich Inheritance

  Proverbs 22:6

  Children are a heritage from the Lord, and parents are called to pass on a home marked by honor, love, wisdom, discipline, and devotion to God.

• Family Matters: High Love // High Discipline

  Hebrews 12:5-11

  Godly discipline flows from love and discipleship together, training children toward obedience and honor the way God lovingly disciplines His own children.

• Final Words: John 15:1-11

  John 15:1-11

  Bearing lasting fruit comes from remaining in Christ, the true vine, through pruning, abiding, and obedience to His word.

Sermons on spiritual disciplines

• Are You Ok?: Pace Of Grace

  Ephesians 5:15-17

  You have to identify your season so you can set a sustainable rhythm of time, energy, and intimacy with God.

• Can I Trust The Bible? The Bible Is... (Part 1)

  2 Timothy 3:14-17

  The Bible's unified story across 66 books and its unmatched manuscript evidence show it was recognized, not invented, and it still demands our response.

• Clean House: You Can't Clean Your Own House

  1 Peter 1:13-25

  You can't clean your own house; true holiness comes only as God sets you apart and transforms you from the inside out.

• David Series: Divine Preparation

  1 Samuel 16:14-23

  Before God ever elevated David to the palace, He developed discipline, devotion, discernment, and favor in him through hidden, faithful seasons in the pasture.

• Get Your Joy Back: Joy & Peace 2.0

  Isaiah 55:8-13

  The Word of God illuminated by the Spirit of God is enough to produce the people of God.

• Hearing From God: Waiting For A Whisper

  1 Kings 19:1-18

  Sometimes the thing we need most doesn't come in a dramatic moment, but in the quiet waiting for God's gentle whisper.

• Prayer Revival: Acts 1:6-14

  Acts 1:6-14

  The disciples' first response after Jesus' ascension was devoted prayer, and the same consecrated, obedient prayer life is what prepares us to see God work.

• Prayer Revival: Luke 11:1-4

  Luke 11:1-4

  When the disciples asked to learn prayer, Jesus gave a pattern of adoration, submission, request, confession and protection that still shapes how we pray.

• Summer In Psalms: Psalms 1

  Psalm 1:1-3

  True happiness comes not from the company you keep but from delighting in and meditating on God's Word, which roots your life like a tree by water.

• Not Do, But Who Sermon

  Colossians 3:12-17

  Your best life is not found in what you do, but who you belong to.