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When Jesus stepped onto the stage of history, He didn’t set out with the goal of simply starting a new religion. He came to introduce a whole new way of life defined by loving God with all we are and loving others as He has loved us. In this Plan, we will journey through Matthew’s Gospel with the purpose of making Jesus’ way of life, our way of life.

Learning the Jesus Way of Life

What makes you, you? A set of internal characteristics? External behaviors? Your likes and dislikes? In part 3 of Becoming Like Jesus, we will discover that before we were or had any of those things, we were made, loved, saved, and called by our Creator. And because He made us, what God says about us is the most true thing about us.

Becoming Like Jesus: Who Am I?

Community is all about God’s design for us and His heart for us to know Him. But, why is that not actually what we experience in relationships? They are hard, messy, and often painful. How does that make sense if community is what God is all about? That’s what we’re talking about in this Plan as we learn to become like Jesus in relationships.

Becoming Like Jesus: Community

We have been created by God to live a life that makes a difference. But where do we start? We start by becoming people who pray. Why? Because prayer connects us to God and helps us become more like Jesus. In the final part of this collection of Plans, we will walk through the most famous prayer ever prayed—the Lord’s Prayer—and discover the powerful practice we have been invited into.

Becoming Like Jesus: Prayer

When you hear the phrase, “must have Jesus,” do you buy it? Maybe you thought you needed Jesus at one point in your life when things were rough. Maybe you don’t know what to think about Jesus at all. In this Plan, we are going to follow one of the most famous chapters in the Bible to discover who Jesus is and what life is like when we trust Him. 

Must Have Jesus

AW Tozer once said that what comes to mind when you think about God is the most important thing about you. Why? Because the way you see God shapes the way you see everything else. Throughout this Plan, we will learn to see God for who He really is and understand why He is worthy of our full devotion. Welcome to part 1 of Becoming Like Jesus!

Becoming Like Jesus: Who Is God?

A fully devoted follower of Christ is someone who is becoming like Jesus for the sake of others. What did Jesus spend His life doing? Making disciples. So becoming like Jesus means that we too are called to make disciples. But how? In this Plan, we will discover that discipleship is a journey, and making disciples is all about inviting people to go on that journey with you.

Disciple-Making Disciples

Because of Easter, everything has changed. Now, as the Church—the people of God living out the will of God—we have been filled with God’s Spirit and commissioned to continue the work of putting all the broken things back together and bringing heaven to Earth, so that once again, order is brought out of chaos. We are called to bring shalom.

Shalom

What would it look like to live in a place where God rules, wrong things are made right, and those who feel rejected are the first to be welcomed? Throughout His life, Jesus announced the present reality of this type of kingdom and invited everyone to be part of it—to experience the difference, and become the kind of people who inspire others to do the same.