Volume 2: Love God
Summary of Volume 2
“One of Jesus’ final instructions to his disciples was that they should “teach them [other disciples] to obey everything that I have commanded you” (Matthew 28:20). However, his commands are peppered throughout the first five books of the New Testament and the early part of Revelation, so it is not easy to draw out the key themes of his teaching without some detailed analysis.” - Matthew Duncan, Teach Them to Obey
As a House Church we want to grow together in being with Jesus, becoming like Jesus, and doing what Jesus did. During the lifespan of your House Church you will hold each other accountable to learn Jesus’ commands and to go out to live them out. The results will be that each person who is committed to walking in life with one another will also see the fruit of intimacy with Jesus. It is the balance of the collective holding the individual to become dependent on Christ.
Topics
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Who is the God we are called to love? God is a community of love. It is that community we are invited to share, know, and dance with. We will spend this week introducing our hearts to the heart of the Creator.
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The Father sends the Son who is filled by the Spirit in order to carry out God’s will into the world. The Spirit is then sent from the Son to dwell in each believer, to then live like the Son as He obeyed the Father. The Holy Spirit must be whom we rely on if our discipleship will be more than just legalistic restructuring of our lives. We must be utterly reliant on the Holy Spirit to empower us for our everyday ordinary lives as disciples. This week we will discuss what it means to receive the Holy Spirit, and to continually be filled by Him.
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As a House Church we will not settle for simply meeting to talk about God from afar where our day to day isn’t impacted. No, we are able to enter into the tradition of discipleship when we say “yes” to Jesus as Savior, Rabbi, and King. We want to learn from Jesus to experience the “abundant life,” that is promised to those who follow Him. This doesn’t come by believing in Jesus just in our minds and checking off mental checkboxes. We will experience abundant life through true faith, by aligning our lives to a new reality, that Jesus is Lord and his reign requires us to shift how our inner and outer life proclaim the good news of King Jesus. This is the invitation to live the Way of Jesus.
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We must commit to loving God. This is not an option for us to choose, but a requirement if we are to follow Jesus. Yet loving God demands us to deny the default of loving ourselves. Jesus models a life that loved God and loved others. As disciples, we must learn how to listen to the Spirit, become like Jesus, and grow in obedience to the Father. In this, we align our lives to the original intent of human relationship with God.
