Disciple-Making DisciplesSample

Bring people to Jesus

In the Great Commission, we are invited to join Jesus’ mission, continue the work that He started, and become disciple-making disciples. But what does that really look like for us as students and leaders, today?

It’s pretty simple: We bring people to Jesus, we live lives surrendered to Jesus, and love others the same way Jesus has loved us.

Becoming a disciple-making disciple does not mean you have to be a super Christian who knows the Bible cover to cover and never has questions or doubts. Discipleship is a journey, and making disciples is all about inviting people to go on that journey with you.

That’s what it looked like for Jesus. He had 12 disciples who literally just followed Him around. They went where He went, ate what He ate, did what He did, and learned to think how He thinks. They spent their lives in proximity to one another and that was a game-changer. So much so that when the disciples were later on trial before the same religious leaders who had killed Jesus, those leaders couldn’t help but notice that these regular, boring fishermen were different because they had been with Jesus.

What we need to know is that making disciples is so much less about preaching to people and so much more about loving them enough to bring them to see the Savior we’ve found. This is exactly what Phillip did for his friend Nathaniel.

Philip found Nathanael and told him, “We have found the one Moses wrote about in the Law, and about whom the prophets also wrote—Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”

“Nazareth! Can anything good come from there?” Nathanael asked.

“Come and see,” said Philip. John 1:45-46 NIV

Come and see. A disciple-making disciple lives life as an invitation to come and see Jesus. Because we know that when we really see Jesus, He changes everything.

Disciple-making disciples bring people to Jesus.

Challenge: Who is Jesus asking you to invite to see Him today? How can you be like Phillip and invite your friends to meet the Savior you’ve found?

Pray and ask God to help you see Him more clearly and others more compassionately. Ask Him to show you someone you can bring to Jesus today. Then do it! It could be as simple as asking them to do this Bible Plan with you. Just invite them to come and see and trust Jesus to do the rest.