Contents
Description
Welcome to Focus On The Message – the first component of our Following Jesus discipleship program. This web page contains the lessons for:
Matthew 10
Purpose
Follow this link for information about these key aspects of our training: Purpose, Goals, Habits, Ministries, and Assignments.
Matthew 10
This chapter has 1 lessons. You should ideally cover one chapter (with all of its lessons) in a week, but please don’t let a week go by without completing at least one lesson.
Lesson 1: Jesus Sends Out the Twelve
Main text and related passages:
- Matthew 10
- Son of Man – Daniel 7
- Jesus sends out the twelve – Matthew 10; Mark 6:6-16; Luke 9:1-9
- Jesus chooses the 12 – Mark 3:13-19
- Jesus sends out the 72 – Luke 10:1-2
- “man against father, daughter against mother” – Micah 7:1-7
- “Anyone who loves their father or mother more than me . . .” – Luke 14:25-35
Checkout the following:
- Watch: Son of Man Biblical Theme Video | BibleProject™ (00:05:51)
- Watch: Soul (Nephesh) Shema Word Study Video | BibleProject™ (00:04:00)
- Where Did Rapture Theology Come From? Ben Witherington III – YouTube (00:05:55)
- Is the Rapture Doctrine Biblical? (Ben Witherington) – YouTube (00:05:14)
- Life Church Discipleship Resources – YouTube
- Hell – Check out videos on Gehenna.
- Life Church – Hell / Gehinnom – YouTube
- The Five Thresholds | Evangelism
- Journey to Faith: The Five Thresholds | Evangelism (00:03:26)
Topics to explore:
- Notice that the apostles are being sent our a little over a third of the way through the gospel (this is true for Matthew, Mark, and Luke). Why does Jesus send them out when his ministry to them is only 1/3 complete?
- How does Daniel 7 inform your understanding of what Jesus means when he refers to himself as the “Son of Man”?
- In light of Daniel 7, when does Jesus mean when he says “you will not finish going through the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes”?
- Review Christianity, Following Jesus, and our current process/activity
- Jesus’ process: Follow me, baptism, access to your network. – Peter, Matthew
Additional resources to check out:
- Matthew for Everyone, Part 1 (The New Testament for Everyone) by Tom Wright – Amazon.com
- Disciples – 008 DUST – Rob Bell – NOOMA – YouTube (00:15:34)
- Paula Gooder – Session 1 A biblical view of discipleship – YouTube (01:18:35)
- Paula Gooder – All sessions, day two – YouTube (01:15:34)
- Watch: Son of Man Biblical Theme Video | BibleProject™ (00:05:50)
Training assignment (do this yourself, and use it to help train someone else):
- Read the main passage and related passages above.
Proclaiming Good News:
Now that we’ve reached the point in the Gospel of Matthew at which Jesus sends his 12 apostles out to proclaim the good news, it’s time to begin exploring our own evangelism. Remember that you can only disciple someone who has already made a commitment to following Jesus. In order to have someone to disciple, you or someone else must first win them to Christ.
Evangelism —-> Conversion —-> Discipleship
Our evangelism curriculum is designed to help you and the members of your life group develop your ability to do this:
You can pursue this Good News material in a variety of ways:
- Use it directly to train a disciple.
- Use it to train your entire life group (including someone you are discipling) in evangelism. Talk to your life group leaders to plan this.
- Participate in one of our Good News classes that we will offer from time to time.
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