Christian discipleship and the Church.


At The purpose of  The MISSION DISCIPLESHIP is to engage the visitor in exploring and examining the words of
Jesus Christ of Nazareth, Jesus Christ the Redeemer, Jesus the Man, and Jesus the Son of God,
and how closely the teachings of Christ are adhered to in today's Church,
and by today's Christian disciple.

The reason The MISSION DISCIPLESHIP is now on the Internet is because God, through his Holy Spirit
instructed me to do it. What is presented here are the 62-year fruits of being educated by the Jesuits of the
Roman Catholic Church; maturing in the Presbyterian Church USA and the American Baptist Church.

Over the past few decades, and up to this moment, I have visited many Christian churches of
different denominations - Presbyterian, Roman Catholic, Fundamentalist Evangelical,
American Baptist, Black Baptist Churches, The Methodist Church, The Church of Christ,
and the Southern Baptist Church.

As every Sunday passes, I will continue to visit different churches in order to observe
how faithfully those churches translate and communicate to their members
the Word of God as contained in the Holy Scriptures.

Attention, also, is directed towards the contemporary televangelists along with those
on the Internet who preach the Word of God to their distant membership.

In addition - and just as important - I will present here the Scriptural words and parables
of Jesus as translated from the New Testament Greek.
The reference texts for The MISSION DISCIPLESHIP are:
Nestle-Aland GREEK-ENGLISH NEW TESTAMENT - 1986 - Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, Stuttgart
The New International Version - INTERLINEAR GREEK-ENGLISH NEW TESTAMENT
Reverend Alfred Marshall - Zondervan Publishing House
 THE GENEVA BIBLE - 1560 Edition, the TANAKH - The Hebrew Scriptures;
the SEPTUAGINT- Greek version of the Hebrew Scriptures;
 the 1611 KING JAMES BIBLE, and the NEW REVISED STANDARD VERSION BIBLE.

 Also used is material from the writings of the Apostolic Church Fathers.

 To become a Christian - that is, to confess one's sins and accept the Supreme Gift of Love
and Forgiveness given us by God through the sacrifice on the Cross of his Son, Jesus Christ -
one only has to accept Jesus as their personal Redeemer, Savior and Lord.

To become a Church, the body membership, its pastoral and hierarchal leadership
has only to follow the instructions put forth from the Holy Spirit to the 12 Apostles; the polity
and administrative mandates from the Apostles Paul, Peter and James, in addition to the
practices put forth by the Apostolic Fathers of the Early Church.

To become a Christian Disciple, the individual believer has to take up the yoke of
Jesus Christ, do as he says to do, and be willing to live - and die - for Jesus in his name.
The role of the Disciple of Christ is the most demanding and challenging
duty ever imposed upon a human being. And yet, once the yoke - the Cross - is assumed,
a great comfort comes over the disciple, and the load is no longer heavy.
Thus is the power of the love of Jesus.

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