One By One Discipleship

One By One Discipleship (Each year it doubles) X 12 members of a church

1 X 2 (One disciple disciples one in one year)             year one       = 2 disciples

2 X 2 (both those disciples disciple one)                     year two       = 4

4 X 2 (all 4 go and make a disciple)                           year 3           = 8

8 X 2 (all 8 go and make a disciple)                           year 4           = 16

16 X 2 (all 16 go and make a disciple)                        year 5           = 32  

32 X 2 (all 32 go and make a disciple)                        year 6           = 64

64 X 2 (all 64 go and make a disciple)                        year 7           = 128

128 X 2 (all 128 go and make a disciple)                              year 8           = 256

256 X 2 (all 256 go and make a disciple)                              year 9           = 512

512 X 2 (all 512 go and make a disciple)                              year 10         = 1024

1024 X 2 (all 1024 go and make a disciple)                year 11         = 2048

2048 X 2 (all 2048 go and make a disciple)                year 12         = 4096 disciples

Over 4,000 disciples in 12 years!

Can you remember where you were with the Lord 12 years ago? Just think, now, how many souls can be touched by your life in the next twelve years!

Matthew 28:19-20 (AMP)

Go then and make disciples . . . teaching them to observe everything I have commanded you.

Jesus didn’t say to fill the pews with new converts – NO! He said to go make disciples. His command is to live a disciplined life submitted to the Holy Spirit that will rub off on those around us.

John 15: 7 (AMP)

If you live in Me—abide vitally connected to Me—and My words remain in you and continue to live in you hearts, ask whatever you will and it shall be done for you.

This does not mean to ask for things (the context is discipleship) Ask for godly character—His fruit! Ask, “What is Your will?” God wants us to be molded (by discipleship) into the image of His Son!

John 15: 8-9 (AMP)

⁸ When you bear (produce) much fruit My Father is honored and glorified, and you show and prove yourselves to be true followers of Mine. ⁹ I have loved you [just] as the Father has loved me; abide in My love—continue in His love with Me.

Continue in the love plant that the Father has planted, keep the vine growing! Let it spread through you to others. Continue in the vine with Me!                                          

John 15: 10-12 (AMP)

¹⁰ If you keep my commandments—if you continue to obey my instructions (if you transform your mind by the discipline you have learned from Me) [see Romans 12:1-2] —you will abide in my love and live on in it; just as I have obeyed My Father’s commandments and live on in His love.

¹¹ I have told you these things that My joy and delight may be in you, (remember, this is what we prayed for back in verse 7 – godly character/fruit) and that your joy and gladness may be full measure and complete and overflowing.

¹² This is My commandment, that you love one another [just] as I have loved you.

John 13: 35 (KJV)

By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.

Sheep beget sheep, disciples beget disciples! New converts aren’t going to be transformed into radical disciples of Christ by a bunch of sour pusses! If we are going to turn the world upside down the gladness in our hearts has got to go viral! True Christianity is contagious!

Go and make disciples! Go, lay down your life and love someone thru to complete transformation and discipleship!

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