Citywide Baptist Church
Being like our teacher
Jesus sends us into the world to be like him... and to be treated by the world in the way He was treated.
Locations & Times
Citywide Baptist Church (Mornington)
400 Cambridge Rd, Mornington TAS 7018, Australia
Sunday 10:00 AM
Jesus has just called his disciples to profound vulnerability and now goes on to talk about the implications of that vulnerability.
The word the NIV translates as "student" is the greek word mathētēs which is normally translated "disciple" but in Aussie English is best understood as "apprentice".
So Jesus is saying the goal for his apprentices is to be like Him.
So Jesus is saying the goal for his apprentices is to be like Him.
Being Jesus's apprentice is taking on his Yoke
Being Jesus's apprentice is taking on His Way, His Truth, His Life.
Being Like Jesus is about three aspects of your life
Being like Jesus is about how you understand the world, how you act and how you relate to the God of the universe. There are no shortcuts. Like an apprentice, we need to be in training.
Training enables you to eventually do what you cannot do now by direct effort.
Mentimeter: What things can you now do fairly easily because you spent time training?
https://www.menti.com/y9ytbwahjnJesus clearly wanted his followers to be distinctive in their towns and villages because they had adopted his way, his truth and his life.
As we become more and more distinctive we will find ourselves standing out from the rest of the world.
Worldliness is that system of values, in any given age, which has at its center our fallen human perspective, which displaces God and his truth from the world, and which makes sin look normal and righteousness seem strange. It thus gives great plausibility to what is morally wrong and, for that reason, makes what is wrong, seem normal.
David Wells (Losing our Virtue)
David Wells (Losing our Virtue)
Understand just how serious the battle for your behaviour, your understanding, and your relationships is.
Since Genesis 3 the battle has been about where we get our value from.
Do you understand your true value?
Do you understand your true value?
Small Group Questions:
1) How do you respond to the picture of discipleship really being about apprenticeship?
2) Do you agree that being like Jesus involves your behaviour, your understanding and your relationship to God? Which of the three do you find harder or easier? Which of the three have you had to work on the most?
3)What are some of the things you have become able to do through training? Do you agree that Jesus is inviting us to training as his apprentices?
4)Have someone read David Wells description of worldliness. What sinful things does our world make normal and what righteous things does our world make seemingly strange?
5)Jesus affirms our value. Matt said that the spiritual battle we are in is about where we get our sense of value from. How do you go with feeling valuable? What things help you feel valuable?
1) How do you respond to the picture of discipleship really being about apprenticeship?
2) Do you agree that being like Jesus involves your behaviour, your understanding and your relationship to God? Which of the three do you find harder or easier? Which of the three have you had to work on the most?
3)What are some of the things you have become able to do through training? Do you agree that Jesus is inviting us to training as his apprentices?
4)Have someone read David Wells description of worldliness. What sinful things does our world make normal and what righteous things does our world make seemingly strange?
5)Jesus affirms our value. Matt said that the spiritual battle we are in is about where we get our sense of value from. How do you go with feeling valuable? What things help you feel valuable?