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Adult Bible Study Guide
Jan • Feb • Mar 2014
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Discipleship
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Disciples and Scripture
Discipling Through Metaphor
Discipleship and Prayer
Discipling Children
Discipling the Sick
Discipling the “Ordinary”
Jesus and the Social Outcasts
With the Rich and Famous
Discipling the Powerful
Discipling the Nations
Discipling Spiritual Leaders
Harvest and the Harvesters
The Cost of Discipleship
Discipleship
Our Goal
We will look at discipleship as
the process by which we become
followers of Jesus and, as such,
better soul-winners.
Discipleship
Lesson 13, March 29
The Cost of
Discipleship
The Cost of Discipleship
Key Text
2 Corinthians 1:7 ESV
“Our hope unshaken, for we know
that as you share in our sufferings,
you will also share in our comfort.”
The Cost of Discipleship
Initial Words
“Indeed, all who desire to live a godly
life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted”
(2 Tim. 3:12, ESV). “[B]ecause Christ also
suffered for you, leaving you an
example, so that you might follow in
his steps” (1 Pet. 2:21, ESV).
Whatever the cost of discipleship is,
considering the ultimate reward, that
cost is cheap enough.
The Cost of Discipleship
Quick Look
1. Calculating the Cost
(Luke 14:26)
2. Responding to the Cost
(Luke 14:27)
3. Comparing the Cost
(Luke 18:28-30)
The Cost of Discipleship
1. Calculating the Cost
Luke 14:26 NKJV
“ ‘If anyone comes
to Me and does not
hate his father and
mother, wife and
children, brothers
and sisters…
he cannot be
My disciple.’ ”
1. Calculating the Cost
First Priority
Hatred in this context may indicate
“loving less.”
Whenever family receives
precedence and Christ becomes
secondary, Jesus relinquishes
lordship. Serving multiple masters is
impossible. Christ certainly
supported strong family
connections.
1. Calculating the Cost
First Priority
Such connections, however, receive
strength from unshakable
foundations. That foundation means
loving God unreservedly, first and
foremost. God disallows every
barrier, interruption, or distraction.
Discipleship exacts the supreme
price: undivided loyalty to Christ.
The Cost of Discipleship
2. Responding to the Cost
Luke 14:27 NKJV
“ ‘And whoever
does not bear his
cross and come
after me cannot
be My disciple.’ ”
2. Responding to the Cost
Bearing Our Cross
Discipleship means accepting Christ
as Savior and Lord. Following Jesus
means that you are ready to undergo
the same suffering that Christ did.
Christ Himself has assigned him or
her a cross, without which they
absolutely cannot become His
disciple.
2. Responding to the Cost
Bearing Our Cross
Conversion releases believers from
the burdens of sin, not from the
responsibilities of discipleship.
By taking the name of Christ and by
publicly revealing that choice through
baptism, every believer must be
aware that discipleship comes with
a cost.
2. Responding to the Cost
Disciplined Response
The cost of discipleship involves
discipline. Every impulse, every
imagination, every ambition, and
every desire must be submitted
to Christ.
Every possession, physical or invisible,
every talent and ability, and
everything of value must be under
Christ’s command.
2. Responding to the Cost
Disciplined Response
What we don’t surrender to Him can,
and inevitably will, become an idol,
with the potential to lead us astray.
“Never must he allow his attention to
be diverted by amusements, luxuries,
or ease. All his habits and passions
must be brought under the strictest
discipline.”—The Acts of the Apostles 311.
The Cost of Discipleship
3. Comparing the Cost
Luke 18:28-30 NKJV
“ ‘See we have left all and followed
You.’ So He said… ‘There is no one
who has left house or parents or
brothers or wife or children,
for the sake of the kingdom of God,
who shall not receive many times in
this present time, and in the age to
come eternal life.’ ”
3. Comparing the Cost
The Rewards of Discipleship
The Rewards of discipleship may
likewise be measured through
comparison with the costs.
Those costs may include emotional
suffering, social rejection, physical
torture, financial deprivation,
imprisonment, and death itself.
3. Comparing the Cost
The Rewards of Discipleship
The cost of following Jesus can be
high, perhaps the costliest thing that
anyone can do.
But one thing is sure: whatever we
gain in this life, whatever we
accomplish, whatever we make for
ourselves, it is only temporary.
It is something that will not last.
It will vanish and vanish forever.
3. Comparing the Cost
The Rewards of Discipleship
We have the promise, the hope, of
redemption, of a new life in a new
world, one without sin, suffering,
and death.
At the same time, because we have
been given this hope, this promise
we seek to point others to the same
hope, the same promise.
The Cost of Discipleship
Final Words
Thus, we ask, Where are the
reapers?
Where are those willing to come
alongside Christ and share the risks?
Will you accept God’s invitation not
to only be a disciple but to make
disciples, regardless of the cost to
yourself?