For years, I have been taught and has used the Roman’s Road in leading someone to Christ. Marked in my early bibles are Roman 3:23, 5:8, 6:23, 10:9-10 and 10:13. I was instructed to first have the individual realize that YOU ARE a sinner. -Romans 3:23 states, "For all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God." We are ALL sinners. But, God loves us and He sent His son, Jesus Christ, to die on the cross for our sins. Next to realize that God Loves them. Romans 5:8 says, "But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." There is no greater love than that someone would lay down their life for a friend. That 's what Christ did for us. Then, without Him, you 're literally doomed. Romans …show more content…
It was not until Saddleback Church, Pastor Rick Warren, published “The Purpose Driven Life”, that the idea of discipleship reached every member of a congregation. No longer was disciple-making limited to the leadership of the church. My church participated in the Purpose Driven Life 40-Day Campaign and had 35 cell groups in the surrounding neighborhood.
Krallman’s book does the same think. He outlines that the Jesus as we all know, taught and discipled disciples before the ascension to heaven. He demonstrated that the pure act of discipleship: being together in one accord to impact for achievement is at the core of impartation. Krallman puts it this way, “people imparting life to other people.” This impartation is usually done by the discipler to his disciples to introduce them to a new realm, expose them to precepts and principles needed to lead from that position. This was all what we saw Jesus do while he was here on this earth. After completing the assignment on earth, Jesus ascended to heaven. Jesus advised his disciples that the Holy Spirit (of mentorship) will bring about remembrance of all things taught (John 14:26). In other words, to guide and be with them. Therefore, at this point the Holy Spirit served as their mentor not as a Discipler.
For me, this is how a disciple should prepare a new convert for Christian maturity. Once you can discern that such convert can grasp the basic precepts of Christian living, then comes the leading of
AO2: Explain how this teaching about discipleship might affect the life of a Christian today.
A second way is when someone starts the process of becoming a disciple or being a disciple, such as in Matthew 27:57 or Luke 14:26-27. Lastly, there are those who are referred to as disciples that only occasionally followed Jesus, such as those in Matthew 8:21. Samra summarizes discipleship succinctly by saying that it is the “process of becoming like Christ.”
Hull, Bill. The Disciple-Making Church: Leading a Body of Believers On the Journey of Faith. Updated ed. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 2010.
Discipleship students, or those who already have a faith commitment, tend to immediately join one of two categories. The first, or Stagnant, students are those who “made a decision to follow Christ at some time in life but never really grew in faith.” These students, from the outside, look very similar to the world as “the distinction between churched and unchurched students is rapidly shrinking.” These students require time to draw them into a
When Constantine was converted he had favoritism towards the church. Churches were built at the state expense. There were lots and lot of wars and plagues that went on. So people were ready and easily to accept an afterlife. Paul was a citizen of Rome and he could travel there without the expense. The roman roads were better and weren't as dangerous as other roads. There were threats of thieves and murderers. Christianity came in when Rome was at its lowest point. The Romans only believed in one god anyways. So that kinda helped too. The Romans were good at obeying laws and having lots of them and it helped too. So they were easy to convert. Jesus was born in the roman period and died in the roman period. Then in the second roman period, the holy spirit came in.
The second source is observation, which is embedded in and distilled from the educational activities of the student (Mitchell, p.281). Believers come from a variety of backgrounds and life experiences, and many are viewed as wise according to worldly standards, but God chooses what is foolish to shame the wise (Holy Bible, 1Cor 1:26-27). Disciplers need to observe and listen to those they disciple. Then, with this background understanding of how they came to their current beliefs, the message can be clarified to maximize the understanding by their students.
Summary of Method -The intellectual method of evangelism the Romans Road uses a systematic way to explain salvation through Bible verses from the book of Romans (What Is Romans Road). The Romans Road method of evangelism is used by many evangelists and missionaries to share the good news of salvation. The Romans Road approach makes it easy to map out the road to salvation. Although there are different versions of the Romans Road the message of salvation remains the same. The Romans Road approach shows who needs salvation, why we need salvation, how God provides salvation, how we receive salvation, and the results of salvation (What Is Romans Road). The first step in the Romans Road approach is acknowledging God as the creator of everything. “For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse, because, although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened: (Romans 1:20-21). The second step requires us to realize that we all are sinners and need forgiveness because we are not worthy under the standards of God. “For all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God” (Romans 3:23). In the next step God shows how we are forgiven for our sins and showed us love for us by giving his son Jesus Christ so that we could have eternal
The quote "All Roads Lead to Rome”, means that the present and what we do today is, was, and will always be, effected by Rome, like for example, our government system. “For 500 years, from about 27 B.C.E. to 476 C.E. The city of Rome was the capital of the greatest empire the world had ever seen."”The fate of Western Rome was partially sealed in the late third century, when the Emperor Diocletian divided the Empire into two —the Western Empire seated in the city of Milan, and the Eastern Empire in Byzantium, later known as Constantinople.” The Western empire fell for multiple reason like corrupt politicians to Barbarian and inflammations. Started with the two brothers Romulus and Remus and then how Romulus killed his brother Remus and then
Discipleship is a process by which one individual helps another become a disciple, or convinced adherent (Merriam-Webster, 2016), of a teacher or movement. Although there are many discipleship models available, a comparison of two discipleship models – LifeShapes (Breen and Cockram, 2009) and Disciplines (Foster, 2002) – reflects two different attempts to teach the same concepts. The following represents a contrast of the key components of the two discipleship models, a discussion of the models considering a Christian worldview, potential applications of the discipleship models, and the presentation of a new discipleship model.
The road game is accurate in many ways. For instance whenever one of the guys run into a problem they have to get around it somehow so that they can get the work done. This is historically accurate because men back then probably ran into problems when building the road. Also in the game you would have to have resources like wood, stone, money, and food, to complete all the tasks given. This is also accurate because to build roads you have to find resources somehow and that involves mining stone and gold, chopping trees down, and searching for food.
Ancient Rome was perhaps the greatest civilization in ancient times. According to Infohio, Rome began when small tribes settled on hills later known as the Seven Hills of Rome. A flourishing people in Southern Italy came and conquered the little tribes around 650 B.C.E. The conquerors decided there would be seven rulers for the new city-state. It is believed that some rulers were Etruscan, some Latin, and some Sabine. Ancient History Encyclopedia says,”...Rome grew in size and strength early on through trade. The location of the city provided merchants an easily navigable waterway on which to traffic their goods.” As it says here, Rome flourished early on because it was easy to travel in and out of Rome for trade. This was very important, because as it says in Ancient History Encyclopedia, Rome was greatly influenced by Greek and Etruscan culture. Rome rapidly grew between the 8th and 6th centuries B.C.E. We’ll talk later on about how the Romans also tried a similar government to the Greeks. But for now, let’s discuss the social class situation. The wealthy people were known as patricians. They had a more leisurely life. According to PBS.ORG, patricians took the religious, military, and political positions in Roman society. Patrician boys were educated on history, geography, important languages, poetry, literature, and some mythology--other subjects would be based on what the boy would be doing for his career. Patricians were excused from military duties if they did not want
Over the years, many models have been developed and implemented to endeavor to make disciples. Some of the models have been effective and others have not. Among some of the most biblical and efficient models are the ones that involve small groups. Within the small groups models, they can be broken down into further detail, such as pastoral involvement, the church’s goal, missions mindedness, etc. In this paper, I will explain my philosophy of small groups in a church and the importance of the relational group in authentic disciple making. I will also explain how missional groups can help the body of Christ move out into the community. Finally, I will summarize my status in regards to living in community with other believers and being missional with that community.
The quote, “ All Roads Lead To Rome” is a very fascinating quote. It makes you think, “huh. That quote takes me back to the Roman times.” All Roads Lead To Rome could mean many different things. It could mean that there was a lot of Roads that Lead to the empire in Rome, all wonders Lead To Rome, and etc. A lot of people could have different reasons, but there was 1 reason that kind of spoke to me.
This course has had a great impact on my walk with Christ as well as my witness for Christ. I pastor a church and teach two classes and for me I thought that I was doing plenty. However this course has helped rekindle my passion for sharing Jesus Christ with people through personal evangelism. This paper will demonstrate what I have learned throughout this course.
Summary of Method – The Romans Road is an evangelical intellectual method of sharing the gospel, using the approach of laying out the plan of salvation through verses from the book of Romans itself. Verses are fashioned into a teaching which outlines who is in need of salvation, why man needs salvation, how God provides that salvation, a response to salvation, and man’s own response to God’s salvation.