The biblical model of discipleship is a loving father/son relationship in which the heart of the father is intentionally passed to the son to the point where he can repeat the process on his own.

This not an alternative to the necessary teaching of Bible and doctrine… 2 Timothy 3:10-11 But thou hast fully known my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering, charity, patience, Persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me….  You have to be fairly close in to someone to know all those things...

Jesus LED Himself Jesus PREACHED To The Multitudes Jesus MOBILIZED The Seventy Jesus ORDAINED The Twelve Jesus CONFIDED In The Three

When Your Discipleship Is Effective, The Person You’re Discipling Will Become: 2 Tim 2:1 A SON 2 Tim 2:3 A SOLDIER 2 Tim 2:15 A STUDENT 2 Tim 2:24 A SERVANT

Eph 4:15-16 says, “But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ: From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part,...

Christians, young in the Lord, often learn from more mature Christians.  So, mature Christians must be like Paul if they are going to teach a young man like Timothy.  “Timothy” is going to check you out to be sure you are worth following.  In 2 Tim 3:10, Paul wrote, “”But...

This lesson was taught by Dr. Wayne Sehmish.  The text is 2 Tim 3:10-14 This material is Dr. Sehmish’s method of discipleship for the men who were the inner core of the church he pastored in Australia and for the men with whom he is working in Thailand.  

Paul’s Ministry Colossians 1:24-29 CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO In v.23, Paul talks of the gospel and says: “whereof I Paul am made a minister” and he says it again in v.25.  So what was his ministry in the gospel?  What is the ministry of any minister? Ministry of suffering (v.24) –...

Introduction to Timothy 1 Tim. 1 1-2 CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO First Timothy is an epistle written by Paul to Timothy.  Together with 2 Timothy and Titus, these epistles comprise a segment of Paul’s epistles known as the Pastoral Epistles.  They are written to give instruction to men Paul trained in...

What Can I Do?  1 Cor. 12:12-27 CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO The body of Christ doesn’t have any vestigial organs.  We all have something to do in the body.  “… now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him,” [1 Cor 12:18]. ...