• COME “ESSENTIAL in SELECTION”
  Mark 3:13 “Jesus went up on a mountainside ….” (v.13)
  Luke 6:12 “One of those days Jesus went out to a mountainside to pray, and spent the night praying to God.”
  PRAY
  • Daily Time with GOD can Change our Lives
    • SOLITUDE (v.13)
    • ALIGN with GOD’s WILL (Luke 22: 42)
    • HUMILITY (Heb 5:7) 
    • HABITUALLY (1 Thess 5:17)
    • PRIORITY over ACTIVITY  (Luke 6: 12)
  • BE with ME “ENGAGEMENT of the DISCIPLES”
    (Disciple = learner, student, follower)
    Mark 3:13-14 “….and called to him those He wanted, and they came to him. He appointed twelve that they might be with him…”
    Luke 6:13-16 “ When morning came, he called his disciples to him and chose twelve of them….. Simon (whom he named Peter), his brother Andrew, James, John, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James son of Alphaeus, Simon who was called the Zealot, Judas son of James, and Judas Iscariot, ...”
• ENGAGEMENT of the DISCIPLES
  (Apostle = messenger, sent one, representative)
  Mark 3:14-15 “…and that He might send them out to preach 15 and to have authority to drive out demons.”
  Luke 6:13 “ When morning came, he called his disciples to him and chose twelve of them, whom he also designated apostles”
  # GOD uses Ordinary People for an Extraordinary Purpose
  
  • ORDINARY MEN (Luke 6:14-16)
  • LEARNERS of the GOSPEL (v.14)
  • FOUNDERS of the EARLY CHURCH   (Eph 2:20)
  • NEW LEADERS OF ISRAEL  (Rev 21:14)
• GO  “EMPOWERMENT of the APOSTLES”
  (Apostle = messenger, sent one, representative)
  Mark 3:14-15 “…and that He might send them out to preach 15 and to have authority to drive out demons.”
  Luke 6:13 “ When morning came, he called his disciples to him and chose twelve of them, whom he also designated apostles”
  AUTHORITY
  # Go and make Disciples  of All Peoples!
  PROCLAIM THE GOSPEL (v.14)  - ESTABLISH THE CHURCH (Acts 2)
  • DOMINION over DARKNESS and SICKNESS  (v.15)
  • ESTABLISH THE CHURCH (Acts 2)
  • PRESERVE THE GOSPEL IN WRITING (Gal 1:8)
    

The Church Changes the World
not by making Converts
but by making Disciples – John Wesley