The Joshua Mission Podcast
Podcast – Weekly, Wednesday, from 16 April 2025 for 2 weeks
Updated 240315
Theme: True Discipleship
Saturday, 25 July 2020 on ZOOM
3 pm to 7 pm
Time Table
1st Hour – Welcome, Introduction, PRAYERS
2nd Hour – Teaching: True Discipleship – The Call (with Q&A)
3rd Hour – Teaching: True Discipleship – Communing with God (with Q&A)
4th Hour – Thanksgiving for Food & Fellowship on ZOOM – then
- fellowship with pot luck meals in small gatherings in a few Host Homes
True Discipleship: The CALL
Matthew 16:24–27 (ESV)
24Then Jesus told his disciples, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. 25For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. 26For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what shall a man give in return for his soul? 27For the Son of Man is going to come with his angels in the glory of his Father, and then he will repay each person according to what he has done.
Three Essential Cumulative Steps To BE Jesus' Disciple
Each MUST be Done IN SEQUENCE
With the Previous the Next Step Cannot be Done
DENY oneself
TAKE UP one's CROSS
FOLLOW JESUS
Luke 9:23–26 (ESV)
23And he said to all, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. 24For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will save it. 25For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses or forfeits himself? 26For whoever is ashamed of me and of my words, of him will the Son of Man be ashamed when he comes in his glory and the glory of the Father and of the holy angels.
DAILY
True Discipleship: COMMUNION with God
John 15:1–11 (ESV)
1“I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. 2Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. 3Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you. 4Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. 5I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. 6If anyone does not abide in me he is thrown away like a branch and withers; and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned. 7If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. 8By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples. 9As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love. 10If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love. 11These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full.
This Passage Answers the Following Questions:
How does one Walk with God?
How does one Sustain the Christian Life?
How does one Serve Christ?
How does on GROW in Christ?
How can one be a Witness for Christ?
PERSONAL DEVOTION: Word, Spirit, Worship, Prayer