MAKING CHRISTLIKE DISCIPLES3

CHRISTIAN MATURITY

DEFINITION OF CHRISTIAN MATURITY

• Christian Maturity is Stable Christlikeness- in Character, Doctrine, Ministry Fruitfulness and Passion for God.

• Christ in you, the hope of glory, Col. 1:27

• Not tossed to and fro by every wind of doctrine, Eph. 4:14;

• Presenting every man perfect in Christ, Col. 1:28;

• To the fulness of the stature of Christ, Eph.4:13

• Be imitators of me as I am of Christ, 1 Cor. 11:1

• When we see Jesus, we shall be like him, 1 Jn.3:2

IMPORTANCE OF CHRISTIAN MATURITY

• FULFILLING GOD’S CALL UPON YOUR LIFE

• FRUITFULNESS IS FOR THE MATURE AND ADULT

• DOCTRINAL STABILITY MEANS SOLID FOOD

• CHARACTER WORTH IMITATING

• FULL INHERITANCE AS GOD’S HEIR

• HELPING/MINISTRY TO OTHERS

• FIT FOR LEADERSHIP AT HOME AND ABROAD

• FULLNESS OF STATURE OF CHRIST

CONTENTS

1. DOCTRINAL MATURITY-MAJOR BIBLE DOCTRINES

2. MATURITY IN CHRISTLIKE CHARACTER

3. FAMILY LIFE & LEADERSHIP ISSUES

4. MATURITY IN MINISTRY FRUITFULNESS

5. FULFILLING GOD’S CALL UPON YOUR LIFE

6. MATURITY IN DOING GOD’S WILL & INTIMACY WITH GOD

7. PERFECTION IN CHRISTLIKENESS

Doctrinal Maturity makes for

stability in the faith

DOCTRINAL MATURITY: MAJOR BIBLE

DOCTRINES, CULTS, APOLOGETICS

• Bibliology-doctrine Of Bible

• Theology-doctrine Of God

• Christology-doctrine Of Christ

• Pneumatology-doctrine Of Holy Spirit

• Anthropology-doctrine Of Man

• Hamartiology-doctrine Of Sin

• Soteriology-doctrine Of Salvation

• Ecclesiology-doctrine Of Church

• Angelology-doctrine Of Angels, Demons, Satan

• Eschatology-doctrine Of Last Things

Character is what you are when

no one is looking

MATURITY IN CHRISTLIKE CHARACTER

• PURITY

• HOLINESS

• HUMILITY

• OBEDIENCE UNTO DEATH

• MEEKNESS

• GUILELESSNESS

• FAITHFULNESS AS SON

• LOVE

• BOLDNESS/COURAGE

• LONGSUFFERING

• RIGHTEOUSNESS

• ZEAL FOR GOD

• PATIENT ENDURANCE

• COMPASSION

• WISDOM

• FAVOR WITH GOD

• FAVOR WITH MEN

• PRAYERFUL

• TEMPTED IN EVERY WAY WITHOUT SIN

Fruitbearing is for the Mature

MINISTRY FRUITFULNESS

USE OF CHARISMATIC, MINISTRY, OPERATIONAL GIFTS

• EVIDENCE OF STABLE FRUITFULNESS, Jn. 15:6

• MINISTRY DISTINCTIVES OF JESUS’ MINISTRY:

– Preaching, Teaching, Healing, Matt. 4:23-25; 9:35

– Disciplemaking, Lk. 6:12,13; Mk. 3:13-15

– Spiritual Warfare, Acts 10:38; 1 Jn.3:8

• MINISTRY DISTINCTIVES OF THE APOSTLES

Spiritual Leadership Begins At Home

FAMILY LIFE & LEADERSHIP AT HOME AND ABROAD

• Christian Leadership: Definition and Importance

• Leadership in Family Life, Church, Workplace,

• Darksides, Dangers and Pitfalls in Christian Leadership;

• Tough Tasks in Leadership-Confrontation, Conflict, Complexity, Cultural Diversity

Will You Finish Well?

FULFILLING GOD’S CALL UPON

YOUR LIFE

• Finishing Well, Jn. 17:4; 2 Tim. 4:7,8;

• Mentoring and Being Mentored

• Reproducing Generations, 2 Tim. 2:2

INTIMACY WITH GOD

• The Perfect Will of God

• Doing Only What Pleases God

• First Love

• The Home of Father Son and Holy Spirit

• Intimacy with God

Be perfect even as your Heavenly

Father is Perfect

PERFECTION IN CHRISTLIKENESS

• Filled With The Holy Spirit

• Filled With The Fulness of the Stature of Christ

• Filled With All the Fullness of God, Eph. 3:19

• Perfect in Christ is what God expects, Matt. 5:48

• Leaving a Legacy of Christlike Example in Life, Ministry

• There is a perfection which can only be attained when Christ appears, 1 Jn. 3:2