Episode 56: Called to Make Disciples

Make this Lent the most fruitful Lent ever. Join Lisa and Laura as they explore Passionate Discipleship, a nine-week Lenten Bible study series. In these powerful episodes, they'll unpack Paul's wisdom to his closest friend, Timothy, and reflect on how we can apply it to our lives today. As we grow in personal holiness, we will boldly step into our call as true disciples by reaching out to the next generation and passing on all that we’ve learned. In today’s episode, they discuss Lesson 3: Called to Make Disciples and explain what it means to pass on the baton of faith and “make” disciples. If you want to know what to pass on, what it will require, and why it matters, this episode is for you.  

Open your Heart to our key Scripture.
2 Timothy 2:2: And what you have heard from me before many witnesses entrust to faithful men who will be able to teach others also.

Open your Bible to other Scriptures referenced in this episode.
2 Timothy 1:12: And therefore I suffer as I do. But I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed, and I am sure that he is able to guard until that Day what has been entrusted to me.
Isaiah 53:3: He was despised and rejected by men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief.
Matthew 10:16: Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves.
Matthew 10:17—18: Beware of men, for they will deliver you up to councils, and flog you in their synagogues, and you will be dragged before governors and kings for my sake, to bear testimony before them and the Gentiles.
1 Samuel 7:12: Then Samuel took a stone and set it between Mizpah and Jesha’nah, and called its name Ebene’zer, for he said, “Hitherto the Lord has helped us.”
2 Corinthians 12:9: My power is made perfect in weakness.
2 Timothy 2:8—9: Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, descended from David, as preached in my gospel, the gospel for which I am suffering and wearing chains like a criminal. But the word of God is not chained.
1 Corinthians 15:14: If Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain.
1 Corinthians 15:17: If Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins.
1 Corinthians 15:20: But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead.
1 Corinthians 15:51—55: We shall not all sleep, but we shall be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed. For this perishable nature must put on the imperishable, and this mortal nature must put on immortality. When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory.” “O death, where is thy victory? O death, where is thy sting?”
2 Timothy 2:3: Bear your share of hardship along with me like a good soldier of Christ Jesus.

Invite Him in with this episode’s questions for reflection.
Do you trust Jesus with the suffering He’s entrusted to you? How might He use your pain to lead others to Him?

Show mentions.
Lisa Brenninkmeyer and Mallory Smyth, Passionate Discipleship: A Study of 2 Timothy
Tish Harrison Warren, Prayer in the Night
Lisa Brenninkmeyer, Praying From the Heart: Guided Prayer Journal
Beth Davis, Blessed Is She

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