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Discipleship training Steve Green Session 6 – Being Fruitful!

This session concludes the 6-week discipleship course on grace. Explore the concept of fruitfulness in our Christian lives and learn how to grow in it through knowing Christ, surrendering to Him, and living with Him filling our entire being. Discover the power of rest, brokenness, rising up like eagles, and realizing that the sky's the limit. Learn how grace enables us to be fruitful and how emulating Jesus can make us true disciples. The session ends with the final word on grace from Revelation 22:21.

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Discipleship training Steve Green Session 6 – Being Fruitful!

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  1. Discipleship trainingSteve GreenSession 6 – Being Fruitful!

  2. Ice Breaker • If you were writing a book covering your life up to this point, what would you want the next chapter of your life to be about? • What title would you give to this ‘next chapter’?

  3. Re-cap on the 6 week discipleship course on grace • Week 1 = Being FREE from always striving • Week 2 = Realising we are declared INNOCENT • Week 3 = Living UNASHAMED lives with a new identity in Christ • Week 4 = Being COURAGEOUS in Christ and living without fear • Week 5 = Empowered through HUMILITY, grace and truth • Week 6 (Today) = Being FRUITFUL by putting it all together

  4. How can we bear fruit • What is fruitful in our Christian lives? • Read John 15:1-5 (Page 1083) • What does this teach us about being fruitful?

  5. Growing in fruitfulness • First • KNOWING Christ as Saviour • Then • UNDERSTANDING that He loves us • Then • SURRENDERING to Him as Lord • Finally • LIVING with Christ filling our entire being (Colossians 3:3, Page 1184)

  6. Fruitfulness through Rest • When, in the creation story did God create Adam? • What did Adam do on the first day of his life? • Which comes first, rest or work? • What does King David write in Psalm 131 (Page 625)? • How should we ‘quieten our souls’? • What does Jesus teach us in Matthew 11:28-30 (Page 977) ?

  7. Fruitfulness through Brokenness • Edward, Martin Luther and Spirit of the Living God • What does Hebrews 12:5-6 and verse 11, (Page 1210-11) teach us? • Can we understand Paul’s sentiments in 2 Corinthians 12:7-10 (Page 1166)

  8. Fruitfulness through Brokenness • The 2005 John Boyne novel and also a 2008 Mark Herman film: ‘The Boy in the striped pyjamas’. • Bruno says to Shmuel, “You are my best friend; my best friend for life.”

  9. Rising up like eagles • Read Isaiah 40:30-31 (Page 725) • How is strength renewed? • How do we wait for the ‘warm air’ of God?

  10. The sky’s the limit • What does Philippians 4:13 (Page 1181)teach us? • How does Ephesians 2:10 (Page 1174)support the notion that ‘the sky is the limit’ • How do the ‘fruits of the Spirit’ (Galatians 5:22, Page 1172) show that God is interested in character and not what we do

  11. The sky’s the limit • How does grace enable us to be fruitful?

  12. How does grace enable us to be fruitful? • Being FREE from always striving • Realising we are declared INNOCENT • Living UNASHAMED lives with a new identity in Christ • Being COURAGEOUS in Christ and living without fear • Empowered through HUMILITY, grace and truth

  13. The sky’s the limit • Who was the most free, innocent, unashamed, courageous and humble person who ever lived?

  14. Fruitfulness • To emulate this is to be a true disciple of Christ • And to be FRUITFUL! • The key is to live under God’s GRACE

  15. Final word • The last words in the Bible • “The GRACE of the Lord Jesus be with God’s people. AMEN.” (Revelation 22:21, Page 1251)

  16. Discipleship trainingSteve GreenSession 6 – Being Fruitful!The End& End of the Grace course on Discipleship

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