THE ROADS CHURCH - NC & MTC

Theme for the day - Initiation is more powerful than prevention!

Make Disciples - mathētĕuō - v - To train, teach or instruct, as a disciple, to cause someone to become a disciple or follower of a specific teacher or leader


Discipleship is not so much about what we prevent but what we initiate!

DISCIPLING NATIONS - Transformation of society through the transformation of the individual

Theme for the day - Initiation is more powerful than prevention!

Baptizing - Present/active tense verb - An action in process or a state of being with no assessment of the action’s completion

Baptizing - baptizō - To make whelmed; cover wholly, flood; immersed; plunge, engage deeply

Name of the Father:

Lack - Jehovah-Jireh - The LORD who provides

Sickness - Jehovah-Rapha - The LORD who heals

Fear and anxiety - Jehovah-Shalom - The LORD is PEACE

Name of the Son:
Sin - Jesus my Savior and my Redeemer

Lonely - Jesus Immanuel - God with us

Betrayal and deception - Jesus Faithful and True

Name of the Holy Spirit:
Confusion - Guide

Sadness or despair - Comforter

Difficulty - Helper

Theme - Initiation is more powerful than prevention!


DISCIPLING NATIONS - Transformation of society through the transformation of the individual

Steps to Transformation:

1) Recruit - Pursue something new
2) Train - Receive new information

Steps to Transformation:

1) Recruit - Pursue something new
2) Train - Receive new information
3) Equip - Apply new information

Steps to Transformation:

1) Recruit - Pursue something new
2) Train - Receive new information
3) Equip - Apply new information
4) Send - Infiltrate with new information

Steps to Transformation:

1) Recruit - Pursue something new
2) Train - Receive new information
3) Equip - Apply new information
4) Send - Infiltrate with new information
5) Conquer - Enforce by influence

More than conquerors - hupĕrnikaō - Completely victorious, utterly defeat, prevail over entirely, ultimate triumph, overcome

Steps to Transformation:

1) Recruit - Pursue something new
2) Train - Receive new information
3) Equip - Apply new information
4) Send - Infiltrate with new information
5) Conquer - Enforce by influence
6) Occupy - Guard

Steps to Transformation:

1) Recruit - Pursue something new
2) Train - Receive new information
3) Equip - Apply new information
4) Send - Infiltrate with new information
5) Conquer - Enforce by influence
6) Occupy - Guard
7) Transformation

APPLICATION:

Are you pouring into your life or just trying to keep things out?
Are you initiating or just preventing?
What are you immersing yourself into?
Are you all in?
Are you continually immersing yourself in the "name" of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit?
Are you more focused on what you are overwhelmed BY than you are Who you are immersed IN?
What area of your life/family/job/community needs transformation?