Producing a World Changer

     Peter is known to be one of the great leaders of the early church. He became the world changer of his generation until today his legacy continues. However, before Peter was made, there was a John the Baptist who testified and proclaimed about Jesus and Andrew who brought him to the Master. A disciple is reproduced by a disciple maker like Phillip who sought Nathanael to tell him that he found the Messiah. 

     Producing a disciple who will change the world is not by accident but intentionally we need to.... 

1) Testify

• Testimony Attracts True Disciples vv. 34-37
  • -true disciples follow v.37
  • -true disciples seek v. 38
  • -true disciples come v. 39

 2) Invite

• Invitation Leads to Conversion vv.40-42 

• -from Simon (grain of sand) to Peter (small rock) v. 42
• -from weak faith (unreliable) to stable faith (reliable)
• -from fisherman to fisher of men - Matt. 4:19      
  

19 And he said to them, "Follow me, and I will make you fish for people."  
20 Immediately they left their nets and followed him.

• from personal dream (limited, less and earthly) to God's dream (greater, larger and eternal) 

• from being impulsive (emotional) to a world changer - Acts 5:14-16

14 Yet more than ever believers were added to the Lord, great numbers of both men and women, 15 so that they even carried out the sick into the streets, and laid them on cots and mats, in order that Peter's shadow might fall on some of them as he came by. 16 A great number of people would also gather from the towns around Jerusalem, bringing the sick and those tormented by unclean spirits, and they were all cured.

3.  Encounter

•  Personal Encounter with Jesus Produces Faith vv. 45-49

• -faith comes from hearing the Word of God
• (listening to God's Word)- thru 4 greatest meetings (devotion, cellgroup, Sunday Celebration and Trainings)
• -transformation happens during encounter with God (Saul)
• (encounter, worship celebration)
• -passion base on Truth and understanding (Paul)
• (not base on emotion or feelings)

      True Disciples testify about Jesus and how they were changed, they draw people back to God. They bring people to Christ (and to the Church) to experience true conversion and transformation that turns them to be a world changer....a disciple maker.

Reflection: The world changer might be just around, waiting for your testimony and invitation. 

John 1:34 And I myself have seen and have testified that this is the Son of God." 35 The next day John again was standing with two of his disciples, 36 and as he watched Jesus walk by, he exclaimed, "Look, here is the Lamb of God!" 37 The two disciples heard him say this, and they followed Jesus. 38 When Jesus turned and saw them following, he said to them, "What are you looking for?" They said to him, "Rabbi" (which translated means Teacher), "where are you staying?" 39 He said to them, "Come and see." They came and saw where he was staying, and they remained with him that day. It was about four o'clock in the afternoon. 40 One of the two who heard John speak and followed him was Andrew, Simon Peter's brother. 41 He first found his brother Simon and said to him, "We have found the Messiah" (which is translated Anointed ). 42 He brought Simon to Jesus, who looked at him and said, "You are Simon son of John. You are to be called Cephas" (which is translated Peter ). 43 The next day Jesus decided to go to Galilee. He found Philip and said to him, "Follow me." 44 Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter. 45 Philip found Nathanael and said to him, "We have found him about whom Moses in the law and also the prophets wrote, Jesus son of Joseph from Nazareth.46 Nathanael said to him, "Can anything good come out of Nazareth?" Philip said to him, "Come and see." 47 When Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him, he said of him, "Here is truly an Israelite in whom there is no deceit!" 48 Nathanael asked him, "Where did you get to know me?" Jesus answered, "I saw you under the fig tree before Philip called you." 49 Nathanael replied, "Rabbi, you are the Son of God! You are the King of Israel!"