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Gospel of the Kingdom 6: Jesus' Discipleship

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Here's Gospel of the Kingdom 5 USC Dornsife There's no other discipleship except Jesus's discipleship. So examine carefully everything he did with his disciples and make that your discipleship model, nothing more, nothing less. It's not a church program---it's a life. It's also the Kingdom vehicle to seriously and powerfully train for ministry and missions. Well, many today claim their discipleship is not a program. But when you look at it, IT IS. Nothing but man's religious program. Yup, Jesus used mainly his discipleship model to train apostles and prophets. His plan was to leave his ministry to 12 apostles (plus the 72 others), some of whom were also prophets (like John and Peter), and to train them for this, he used discipleship---not bible schools or seminaries. You have to grasp this truth or else you totally lose it. The secrets of the Kingdom is given only to some---to those who get Jesus' truths, not man's religious theories. To

Gospel of the Kingdom 5: Just 3 Ministry Focuses

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Here's Gospel of the Kingdom 4 GlassDoor Matthew chapter 4 clearly shows it. Jesus did just three things in ministry--- preached the Gospel , made disciples and healed the sick . Period. Nothing more, nothing less. And that's what he did to the end, before dying on the cross for our sins. Then in John 14.12 we find him saying, "Anyone who has faith in me will do the same works I've been doing." If you want to do the genuine ministry, you have to do as Jesus did. And he focused on just three. Anything beyond them is trash. Dead works or works of the flesh. Good to look at, even effective, but trash nonetheless. It can draw lots of people to your church, even produce conversions and mega membership, but it will just create an image of liveliness. Like a mega Sardis church: " ...you have a reputation of being alive, but you are dead." Here's a Sardis church---sleepy, dead and whatever it has left is about to die, incomplete. And ye