Now I Am a Disciple of Jesus Christ

Jesus commanded his church: Go and make disciples ... baptizing them, teaching them to do all things I have commanded. Matthew 28:19-20. The church can only disciple those who are willing to be discipled and trained. You must decide for yourself whether you will truly follow Jesus Christ and be an active disciple or if you will be careless and drift back to the ways of the world. What you do now will probably determine how you will live the rest of your life – with joy and victory in the Lord or in failure, led downward by ugly self-centeredness. This booklet offers you an opportunity to begin well as a follower of Jesus Christ as his faithful and joyful disciple.

Every new Christian urgently needs to be discipled. Sadly, many who have been Christians for years say that they have never been personally discipled. The experiences you will have through in studying with others the following pages will be a definite and beginning discipling experience that should help you in many ways. Even so, you should continue to learn and serve as a disciple of Jesus Christ all the rest of your life.

Other discipling experiences that should be available to you as a member of a Church on the March include: Personal or Family studies given through the National Bible Reading Campaign, weekly studies in Friendship groups, personal development as a member of a ROCK, and active enrolment in the church’s Bible institute. Bible study in Sunday school is another form of continued discipling. In addition to the need to study, it is important to know that few believers ever grow in their Christian lives apart from faithful attendance and active service in their churches or in the lives of missions of their churches.

Decide now to be an active disciple of Jesus Christ. When you have completed the following studies, you should be on your way to victorious discipleship in the knowledge and service of Jesus Christ, your Lord.

An advice to wise students: In this page and in all which follow, we will refer to key verses of the Bible. Therefore, we will be going through different books of the Bible and to several chapters and verses. While this is necessary for this kind of thematic study, it is always slightly dangerous, since the verses can be misinterpreted being brought out of their context. For this reason, we encourage each reader to look up each studied verse after the class and to read the verses found before and after it. Doing so will not only keep the reader from the danger of misinterpreting a verse, but will also improve the student’s understanding of the given verses. Furthermore, it is a way to examine personally the study received in class and to become more familiar with the Bible.

It is only possible to be a disciple of Jesus Christ when you meet and know him personally. It is not enough to be a “good” person or even a faithful church member. Many “good” people and many church members do not really know God nor have they been saved by Jesus Christ. We must begin, therefore, by carefully studying what the Bible says is necessary to be a child of God, saved by Jesus Christ from all sins.

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We are saved when we repent of our old sinful ways and fully trust the Lord. Saving faith is not something you have only at the beginning of your Christian life. Saving faith is the lasting faith of all who are truly saved. The world, the flesh and the devil warn you that you dare not fully trust the Lord for your salvation, but now must depend on uncertain things, like your good works, your religious acts, or your unfailing faithfulness. You will not have these in perfection until the Day of Jesus Christ, when He will totally transform you into his image. Only your faith in Christ will save you and keep you saved.

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Jesus said, If anyone declares publicly that he belongs to me, I will do the same for him before my Father in heaven. Matthew 10:32. When we devote our lives to Christ, it is natural that we tell others about it, that we “declare” our relationship with Christ to others. We do this in many ways. For instance, we do it through evident changes that God brings to our lives. We openly tell that we belong to Christ; and we dramatize our acceptance of Christ as Lord when we are baptized.

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It is very apparent that believers’ baptism was very important in the time of the Apostles. While many Scriptures let us know that we are only saved by repentance and faith in the Lord Jesus and, therefore, that baptism does not save, we can also see in the Scriptures that everyone who received Christ as Lord was subsequently baptized and received as members of the church. An example of this follows:

With many other words (Peter) warned them; and he pleaded with them, “Save yourselves from this corrupt generation.” Those who accepted his message were baptized, and about three thousand were added to their number that day. Acts 2:40-41.

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Before we knew Christ, we were “sons of disobedience” by nature, living apart from God and His will for our lives. When we received Christ as our Lord, we promised to follow and serve him, entering into a life of obedience to God. We repented of our sinful, disobedient life and took on a life of obedience and the many blessings this kind of life offers.

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From now on, the quality of your life will depend, more than anything else, on your growing friendship with the Lord. For this reason, Peter wrote: Grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. 2 Peter 3:18 Jesus, himself, said to Christians, Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him and he with me. Revelation 3:20

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When you were saved, the Lord did many things in your life. This included forgiving all your sins, living in you and sealing you with His Holy Spirit, giving you a share in Jesus´ eternal inheritance and many more things as well. It is God’s purpose that every child of His belongs to his spiritual family the church, and the Lord Himself added you to the church. This was true from the beginning: And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved. Acts 2:47b And it is true today as well!

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Many people believe that God’s work in our lives has only to do with questions of the spirit and of eternity, but has little to do with our financial, physical and material well-being. In this, they are tragically mistaken, because the Lord wants to both bless us and use us in our financial, physical and material lives as well as in our spiritual lives.

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