Discipleship Development Programme
Discipleship is an intentional, relational, and experiential teaching and training of believers on the knowledge, understanding, wisdom, and practices that brings obedience of all that Christ has commanded about the Kingdom of God. The believer gets to knows and believes in the Lord Christ Jesus, understand and commits to obey his commandments, and engages in the practices of the Kingdom of God. Discipleship begins with explicit call of becoming fishers-of-mean; daily experiential walking, abiding, and learning the principles of the Kingdom of God; and participating in the declaring and discharging the mandate of expanding the King of God. New believers learns on how to do, start to do, and continues to do the work they have been commissioned by the master. With the primary call to be fishers-of-men, the believers discharge other services that facilitate the expansion of the Kingdom of God. The believers learn how to exercise their faith, desire and tap into the gifts of the Holy Spirit, grow the fruit of the Holy Spirit, understand their appointments in the work of Kingdom of God, and commissions the disciples into the harvest field.
(i) Precedes from Mission and Evangelism;
(ii) Purposefully communicated; (iii) Relational process – Christ, interpersonal; (iv) begins with the commission to baptize those who believe in the name of the Father, Son and the Holy Spirit; (v) Followed by Experiential teaching: knowledge –Kingdom Content, practices – Character development, and attitude – priority setting; ( vi) Syllabus: Command of Christ; (vii) Maturity (Ephesians 4:; Colossians 1:28-29) - equip believer for the works of service, unity in faith and knowledge of Christ, conforming the fullness of Christ, firmness in doctrine, speech –truth; (viii) discipleship mission accomplished –discipled win souls and disciple them to win others; (ix) transferring leadership(i) Person-to-person (Paul to Timothy; Barnabas to John Mark), (ii) inner-circles, (iii) Small groups, (iv) house-to-house, (v) small-cohorts, (v) Congregation
(i) Statement of faith: God [Father, Son, and Holy Spirit], Man, Sin, Salvation, and Church;
(ii) Practices of faith: Believing, surrendering, trusting, relying upon God, (iii) Obedience to calling and services; (iv) Ordinances – baptism of complete immersion, Lord's Super ordination of clergy, marriage and holy matrimony between biological man and one, baptism of the Holy Spirit, dedication of children Lord, Prayer of the sick, Christian burial and disposal of the dead.(i) True worship in Spirit and Truth;
(ii) Family prayer alter; (iii) Fellowship one-to-another; (iv) Services unto the Lord – body of Christ/Church, professional/career, compassion