What Are You Known For

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Coca ColaSoftdrinksColgate - HappeeToothpasteLucky MeNoodlesToyotaCarRolexWatchChristians?YouWHAT ARE YOU KNOWN FOR?Robert Woodruff bought Coca-Cola Company. His desire and vision was: anyone who wants to drink Coke will be available all over the world. (that was just less than hundred years ago) and he succeeded.Robert WoodruffTo be plainly instructed and consider well that the main end of your life and studies is to know God and Jesus Christ.Founded in 1636Veritas Christo et Ecclesiae (Truth for Christ and the Church)HARVARD UNIVERSITYFormerly the Collegiate SchoolFounded in 1701Primary Goal: Every student shall consider the main end of his study to know God in Jesus Christ and answerable to lead a Godly, sober life.YALE UNIVERSITYLux et Veritas (Light and Truth)MARK 1:17Jesus said to them, Follow me, and I will make you become fishers of men.Studied Law in London(he learned Christianity there, he was so impressed with the teachings of Jesus and he wanted to be Christian)He went to South Africa to practice law.Went to a Christian church and the leaders didnt allow him to enter because he is colored-he is not white.GANDHIOh, I dont reject your Christ. I love your Christ. It is just that so many of your Christians are so unlike your Christ. If Christians would really live according to the teachings of Christ, as found in the Bible, all of India would be Christian today.GANDHIMATTHEW 28:18And Jesus came up and spoke to them, saying, All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth.JOHN 5:22-23For not even the Father judges anyone, but He has given all judgment to the Son, so that all will honor the Son even as they honor the Father. He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him.2 CORINTHIANS 5:10For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may be recompensed for what he has doneMARK 4:39And He got up and rebuked the wind and said to the sea, Hush, be still. And the wind died down and it became perfectly calm.What is disciple-making?Disciple-making is the process of bringing people to Christ, and building them up in the faith toward Christ-likeness, for the purpose of spiritual multiplication, resulting in the glory of God.Spiritually Dead (Lost)InfantImmatureMature (Make Disciples)Stages of Spiritual JourneySpiritually Dead (Lost)EPHESIANS 2:1-2And you were dead in your trespasses and sins, in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the airInfantROMANS 8:9However, you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. But is anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him.