Disip is a group for
Christians who are one in love (agape) for one another (1 John 4:7-21; John
13:34-35; 17:21), willing to share their testimonies (Luke 8:39), and want to
make disciples (= Persons who love (agape) ) of all nations. (Matthew 28:18-20)
... who love (agape) one
another...
"Beloved, let us
love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God
and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son
into the world, so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we
have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for
our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No
one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is
perfected in us. By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he
has given us of his Spirit. And we have seen and testify that the Father has
sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. Whoever confesses that Jesus is the
Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. So we have come to know and to
believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love
abides in God, and God abides in him. By this is love perfected with us, so
that we may have confidence for the day of judgment, because as he is so also
are we in this world. There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out
fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been
perfected in love. We love because he first loved us. If anyone says, “I love
God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother
whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen. And this commandment we
have from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother." (1
John 4:7-21)
"A new commandment I
give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are
to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if
you have love for one another.” (John 13:34-35)
...share their
testimonies...
So everyone who acknowledges me before men, I
also will acknowledge before my Father who is in heaven, 33 but whoever denies me before men, I also will
deny before my Father who is in heaven.
(Matthew
10:32-33)
“Return to your home, and
declare how much God has done for you.” And he went away, proclaiming
throughout the whole city how much Jesus had done for him.
(Luke 8:39)
…for we cannot but speak of what we have seen and heard.” Acts 4:20
...make disciples...
And Jesus came and said
to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go
therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father
and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have
commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
( Matthew 28:18-20)
Christian disciples are
to be ONE in God who Is Love. God is AGAPE love. Christian disciples are to be
one in AGAPE. And as agape people we are to go and make other agape people
according to the Great Commission.
Disip
= AGAPE persons making other AGAPE persons.
Disip depends absolutely
on God to execute God's Great Commission. Without God, Disip can do nothing
(John 15:5). Disip is to live by faith, the Word of God, prayers, and agape
love. So, help us, God! Amen.
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