Discipleship Pathway
The Pathway
IN NEED OF CHRIST
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.” John 3:16
- In need of Jesus as Savior
- Romans 3:23-24, 6:23, 10:9, Ephesians 2:8-9
INITIALLY IN CHRIST
- Received Jesus as Savior
- Baptized
- Loves Authentically
- Join and engage in life of local church
- Beginning to be formed Biblically
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INTENTIONALLY GROWING IN CHRIST
- Consistent in Personal Devotion, Worship, and Serving
- Growing in guiding values
- Consistent in group life
- Give Sacrificially
- Sharing Christ
- Praying
INVESTING CHRIST IN OTHERS
- Intentionally growing in Christ
- Shaping other Christ Followers
- Serving from giftedness
- Praying for others
- Sharing Christ with those in need of Christ
Gospel, Practices, and Advancement
How Will We Effectively Share Christ and Shape Christ Followers?
MBC believes the best way to accomplish our mission is to create a discipleship culture that will drive the mission, guiding values, and spiritual formation to make disciples. We define a disciple as a Christ follower who grows in love and loyalty to the gospel of Jesus and teaches others to do the same. The process or strategy to make disciples is simply called discipleship. Discipleship is investing the gospel of Jesus Christ that has been entrusted to us into other faithful Christ followers (2 Timothy 2:2 .) At MBC, our strategy of spiritual formation uses the three essential gears of discipleship: Gospel, Practice, and Advancement.
When these three gears work together simultaneously, there is great movement for the Christ Follower to take their right next step.
GOSPEL
Believe
Life transformation
Articulation
PRACTICES
Personal devotion
Corporate worship
Group engagement
ADVANCEMENT
Local church
Local community
The nations
