Continuing the Sermon Discipleship Series:
"What Have You Done with the Bible"
Pastor Frank Oakman
Scriptures:
Call to worship: Psalm 14
Old Testament: Joshua 24:14-24
New Testament: James 1:22-25
Sermon: 2 Timothy 3:14-17
Hymns
To God Be the Glory
Cornerstone
I Have Decided to Follow Jesus
Live stream:
https://youtube.com/live/rwEgcXB2mkw?feature=share
A Weekly Update on Church Activities
Greetings in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. I give thanks to our gracious God for putting you all in our lives. Your faithfulness and your enthusiasm fill my heart with joy and help complete my hope in Christ. Every day I look forward to serving our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ alongside each of you and growing in our discipleship journey together.
I have written about Discipleship these past couple of weeks. Now, I would like to transition to a being a Disciple Maker. In fact, truth be told, I should have started with this topic before talking about Discipleship. The reason? Well, making disciples must come before discipleship. Discipleship is the process that those who follow Jesus go through to reflect His nature in the world. However, unless there are new disciples, discipleship will eventually become something internal, and within the four walls of the church.
A Disciple Maker is one who heeds the command of Jesus to “Go and Make Disciples.” This is the first of three steps. The second is baptizing these new disciples, and the third is leading them in the discipleship process (“teaching them everything Christ taught”).
Unfortunately, making new disciples is the process that so many avoid. They would rather focus on helping a Christian grow instead of reaching out to those who haven’t given their lives to Christ. Why is this so? There are a couple of answers to this question. Let me address a couple.
As I was reading a book by Jim Britts called 21 Days to Becoming a Disciple Maker, he presents two profound questions based upon the parable of the soils (Matthew 13:3-9). He describes the soils as follows: Path – Not Interested; Rocky Soil – Too shallow; Thorny Soil – Too Busy; and Good Soil – Fruitful. Jim Britts then asked these simple but profound questions:
1. “Which of these four soils do you want to live your life on?” Hopefully, the answer of course is unanimous and that is we all want to live our lives on the Good (fruitful) soil. But the second question digs more deeply.
2. “In all honesty, which of these four soils does your life most closely resemble?” What a different question. We all want to live our lives on the good soil, but honestly how many of our lives reflect the fruitfulness that Good Soil provides? How many of us are actually sowing seeds that produce new disciples?
The most common answer to question #2 is “The Thorny Soil.” Most folk’s lives closely resemble the “Too Busy” soil to be as fruitful as they would like. Job responsibilities; family obligations; and, of course, personal downtime seem to cause our lives to be “Too Busy” to do what Christ commands those who follow him to act upon.
Satan wants our lives “too busy” and when our lives get “too busy” sometimes our soil becomes Rocky (and our spirituality becomes too shallow) or we even get to the point of a hard path and find ourselves not even interested. Satan will claim victory over the lives of those who follow Jesus when the find ourselves not interested or even too shallow. We know that when our lives closely resemble such soil, the Word of God -- the Truth -- does not take root. And if we live our lives resembling the thorny soil, what does take root will be choked out by the other priorities in our lives.
The key is to live our lives on soil that resembles the good soil, which means we are living our lives rooted deeply in the Word of God and in the presence of the Holy Spirit -- that our lives are making a difference not only in the community of believers, but outside that community.
Jim Britt’s book 21 Days to Becoming a Disciple Maker focuses on setting up disciple-making habits and putting them into practice such as “learning to pray like a disciple maker.” “Grow in confidence in starting spiritual conversations.” And “be equipped to make disciples that make more disciples.”
I would invite you to join me in taking this 21-day journey to becoming better Disciple Makers for our community. If you are interested, please contact me via email or phone so we can begin taking this step to fulfill our Divine Commission, our GMC Mission, and our Kerrville GMC Vision.
Friends, as we continue to move forward as Kerrville GMC, we must become disciple makers so that we can continue strengthening discipleship within God’s church.
Have a blessed week!
Blessings to you!
Pastor Frank
Sunday morning Discovery Bible study in the conference room.
Pastor Frank will begin a new study on the Gospel of Matthew at 10:00 a.m. Mondays in August in the sanctuary.
Our next special prayer service will be at 6:00 p.m. Wednesday, August 7.
A special celebration is planned for after church on Sunday, August 11. More to come. Save the date.
The next catechism workshop is scheduled for 3:00 p.m. on Tuesday, August 13th. Please contact Jim Needham if you are interested so he can provide the materials for advance review. The workshop covers all of the core beliefs for Global Methodists. The Catechism workshop discussion is a requirement for global church membership.
We would like for everyone in the church to be connected through a regular weekly Life Group. People who are in them love them. Plan to visit visit one or more of the six Life Groups now meeting -- they are on the church calendar below -- or contact Jim Cox if you are interested in starting a new group.
A very generous member of our church has offered us a matching gift for the Building Fund. That member will match any donations from us between now and December 31, 2025 up to $500,000. That’s an opportunity to raise $1 million for our Building Fund if we can generously respond.
Even before this opportunity, members donated over $114,000 to the building fund. Any donations should be noted as for the Building Fund.
As a note, we need to continue with our regular tithes and offerings for the operation of the church.
Please consider signing a Building Fund Matching Donation pledge sheet for a commitment you will make between now and the end of 2025. With the match, your gift will be doubled!
International Leadership Institute Training
Hosted by Kerrville Global Methodist Church
ILI is a 3-day training Spiritual Leadership Training focusing on 8 Core Values of effective Spiritual Leadership, including areas of Evangelism, Discipleship, and Stewardship.
August 22, 23, & 24 (Thursday, Friday, Saturday)
YO Conference Center
9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Please Call Kerrville Global Methodist Church at (830) 230-7800 to reserve your spot by August 5th.
There is no cost to attend training, however, lunch will be on your own. The YO Conference Center offers a lunch Buffett as well as menu items.
Anew 2024 Women’s Ministry event will include time for worship and connecting with women from your local church and women from across the conference.
There will be teaching and preaching from nationally known speaker and author Lisa Harper, Dr. Leah Hidde-Gregory, and Rev. Tynna Dixon, the first Elder ordained in our new Global Methodist Church.
Anew 2024 will conclude with an opportunity for prayer and communion together. It will include a lunch break where women can enjoy lunch at a Waco area restaurant.
For some GMC women the cost of this event is prohibitive. If you would like to provide a scholarship, please contact Jim Noble, Conference Treasurer, for instructions at jimnoble@midtexasgmc.org.
If you are a member of First Waco, please contact Joann Dominguez at joann@firstwaco.com to complete your registration through her.
By registering for this event you give permission for your photo in event pictures to be used for promotional materials and also for your name to be added to the Mid-Texas GMC’s Women’s Ministry mailing list to receive email regarding GMC women’s news in the future.
For women registering before September 1, the price will be $40. If tickets are still available after September 1, the price will be $50.
We are an orthodox and traditional Global Methodist Church in Kerrville, TX.
We believe in the authority of the Bible as the inspired Word of God.
We believe that Jesus Christ is our Lord and Savior and the Way.
I believe in God the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth. I believe in Jesus Christ his only Son, our Lord. He was conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary. He suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried. He descended to the dead. On the third day he rose again. He ascended into heaven, and is seated at the right hand of the Father. He will come again to judge the living and the dead. I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, and the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. Amen.
Our Mission is to make disciples of Jesus Christ who worship passionately, love extravagantly, and witness boldly.
Our vision is to be known for growing deep in worship and prayer, growing up as disciples, growing together in love and growing out in evangelism and outreach.
Kerrville Global Methodist Church
301 Junction Highway at Five Points
Suite 230, 2nd floor
Kerrville TX
John Wesley:
"My ground is the Bible. Yea, I am a Bible-bigot. I follow it in all things, both great and small. I want the whole Christ for my Savior, the whole Bible for my book, the whole Church for my fellowship, and the whole world for my mission field."
Kerrville Global Methodist Church
301 Junction Highway at Five Points
Kerrville TX 78028
Sanctuary: Suite 230
Executive offices: Suite 233
Conference room: Second floor
Mailing address:
Kerrville Global Methodist Church
P.O. Box 293787
Kerrville TX 78029
Minister: Rev. Frank C. Oakman
830-293-7800
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