Monday Morning Quarterback: MAKE ONE – the simplicity of fulfilling the Great Commission

Yesterday, we completed an equipping series at Bethel Community Church called MAKE ONE.  This has been a great message series and one of the more important groups of messages that we have shared at Bethel.

The church has been entrusted with the role of equipping followers to fulfill the Great Commission (Ephesians 4: 11 -12).  The followers have been entrusted with the Great Commission itself by advancing God’s Kingdom through”making disciples” (Matthew 28: 19 – 20).  Instead of being God’s agent of change and an equipping center for an army of disciple-makers, Ed Stetzer said recently that unfortunately, “the church has become good people standing in front of good people, helping them to be good people.”

The Great Commission is God’s only plan to reach the world with the message of gospel.  The gospel is the “good news” of God’s only solution for man’s sinful predicament.  The purpose of our series was to help every follower of Jesus to obey God by fulfilling the Great Commission, to demystify what it means to “make disciples,” and to create some language that will help us identify the process of fulfilling the Great Commission.

With the help of the entire Bethel team and inspiration of Pastor Rice Broocks we created this five part series.  The steps that we shared include:

• Pray & Ask – it all starts in prayer.  In prayer we develop a heart for people and gain the proper motivation for ministry.
• Go & Look – at some point you have to leave your prayer closet and open your eyes to those that God wants to reach.  Usually this isn’t  a mystery it is those people that you already have relationship with… your family, friends, co-workers, teammates, classmates, etc…
• Show & Tell – “they don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care” – I first heard this from former Notre Dame Head Coach Lou Holtz.  It rings true in making disciples.  You have to live the gospel, but certainly it doesn’t stop there…at some point, you have to open your mouth and share the life-changing message of Jesus.
• Laying the Foundations – Jesus said, “make disciples, baptizing them and teaching them to obey,” meaning in making disciples doesn’t stop with a decision.  A well-built disciple must have systematic foundations instilled in their life.  The tools that we use for this is The Purple Book and the One to One Book.
• Entrust and Empower – this step is the litmus test of whether we have successfully made a disciple.  At Bethel we define a disciple as a passionate follower of Christ that lives as He lived, loves as He loved, and leaves behind what He left behind.  What did Jesus leave behind?  Disciples that were able to “MAKE ONE,” disciples that left behind what Jesus left behind… disciples who make disciples.

I encourage you to check-out this entire message series on podcast.

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