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This came up in Greek (Symbol) on my end. Copied and pasted into word and changed it to Lucida Console.
Really liked the last point. Am convinced, more and more, that this is the heart of what He wanted for us now.
"Jesus didn't give his disciples a body of knowledge, but the experience of living with him."
Jesus' pattern of discipleship
Ho How did Jesus train his disciples? He shared the rough and tumble of everyday life with them (Luke 8:1-3) He asked them questions to show them what they needed to learn (Matthew 16:13-20) He answered their questions (eg Matthew 17:19-20) He demonstrated the practical skills they needed to ...
We were talking about this today. To my knowledge there are no occasions mentioned in Scripture where Jesus discipled someone privately though there are some where He evangelized individually(Nicodemus and the Samaratin woman).
Don't know that we can draw too much from that but it could bear implicatons for our practices after conversion.
Individuals versus households
Although Jesus sometimes dealt with individuals, in the book of Acts, there are only two examples of individuals becoming disciples. In Acts 8, Philip leads the Ethiopian eunuch to the Lord, and in Acts 9, Saul is converted on the road to Damascus through Jesus' supernatural intervention. Other ...
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