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Tuesday, May 26, 2020

Disip description


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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