Kingdom Disciples With Tony EvansSample

 Church and Community 

God has placed kingdom disciples in the body of the church to be His representatives in the world. In today’s session we’ll see how God is using the church to change the world. A kingdom church is: A group of believers who covenant together to disciple their members in order to model and transfer heaven’s values in history. 

As we’ve discovered, discipleship is the growth process by which Christians learn to bring all of life under the lordship of Jesus Christ. This growth doesn’t happen overnight. Even though your salvation is complete the moment you trust Christ for salvation, becoming a disciple is a lifelong process. But it’s also a process that shouldn’t stop with you.

That’s why discipleship includes a developmental process in the local church by which Christians are taken from spiritual infancy to spiritual maturity so that they can reproduce the discipleship process with others. The Bible calls this process being “conformed to the image of [God’s] Son” (Rom. 8:29). 

In other words, the process of discipleship by which believers become Christlike
is designed to be repeated again and again until Jesus has many brothers and sisters who look like Him. The local church is one of the primary locations where this discipling process occurs.

You and I can’t participate in this process if we’re living as isolated Christians. God placed us in a body of people called the church so that together we can accomplish the mission of discipling other believers. The church is God’s place to produce disciples who will then influence our communities. As kingdom disciples think, talk, and act like Jesus, the world is influenced as well.

To find out more about Tony Evan's Kingdom Disciples Bible study, please visit: Kingdom Disciples