Agora Church

Call To Follow

We are now in a series of looking at Jesus and how He demonstrated discipleship, and what He taught about it. Jesus called people to follow Him many times in the Gospels and we are probably familiar with Him choosing, and then calling, His future apostles to discipleship.

But He also calls us to follow Him as we deal with a particular issue which is one the main things holding us back from a deeper and more satisfying walk with Jesus.

What Does it Mean to Follow Jesus

A couple of weeks ago we heard how God calls us into a saving relationship with His Son, Jesus Christ, and how he continues to call us into a closer relationship with Him every day. But what about service?

God has made each one of us with an individual 'shape' to fit into a unique place of service in His kingdom - rather like a jigsaw piece finds its place to complete the whole picture. Like a jigsaw, the picture is incomplete without every piece in its proper place. And like a jigsaw piece, we can be confused about where we fit, and perhaps feel we don't even have a place in the picture.

Scriptures: 1 Peter 2:9; 1 Corinthians 12:4-7

What Is Discipleship?

We will continue our series on “discipleship” and this Sunday, Sue Hanna, a missionary in Cambodia for the past 20 years, will speak to us about a simple three-word model that we can use as a model for discipleship in our individual lives and as a church. 

Call of Discipleship

There's a good deal of uncertainty and confusion around God's call on our lives. We tend to think of a calling in terms of a ministry or God telling us to do some job in the church. But it's much more basic and important than that.

Today we will look at God's calling into the special life he designed for us from before the beginning of time. It's a calling into community, service, and into ultimate satisfaction and joy. It's a calling to enter into Christ himself (a great mystery)! In other words, our calling is to be a disciple of Jesus Christ. 

Scripture: Mark 3:13-15 and John 17:5-9; 18-26

Pictures Of Jesus

Why follow Jesus?...and when things turn to chaos in life what can we hold onto to keep on being his disciple?
 
We continue our series on Pictures of Discipleship as we listen in on some very important statements that Jesus makes to his disciples. Statements that provide us with reasons to follow him.

heart of discipleship

We hear so many different ideas of what discipleship is. (Some of them really put us off!) Why so many? And what's the real deal?

Once we see what the heart of discipleship is according to Jesus, we will understand why there are so many interpretations. Better yet, we will also see that discipleship is something to be wholeheartedly embraced as the means of peace, joy, and satisfaction in our lives that nothing else can compete with.

Pictures Of Discipleship

This year, we’re focusing on discipleship: what it looks like and how we can live it out together.

Al has kicking off our first series, Pictures of Discipleship, as we explore a vision of where we want to be by the end of the year.

Join us as we dive into thought-provoking discussions about what discipleship means, reflect on who has discipled us, and consider who we might be discipling.

Wisemen

Join us as one of the wise men from the Christmas story shares his extraordinary journey to Bethlehem. Hear the story through the eyes of a pagan seeker following a star to find a King.

Shepherds

Did you hear about the old shepherd who got fired because he never knew how many sheep he had? He kept falling asleep as he counted them.
Today we will meet the shepherds from the Christmas story. Unlike last Sunday's Innkeeper, these guys are real, and have a lot to teach us (so we wont be tempted to count sheep during the service).
We will be in Luke chapter 2, verses 8 to 21

Inn keeper

This Sunday, we considered why Jesus was born into such poverty. When you think about it, why was there ‘no place for them…’ Luke 2:7? God can do anything, right? Why not have Jesus at least born in the house where we find him later as a child? Why ‘no place’? Why was there no midwife to help Mary? Why does Jesus have to sleep in a feed trough? What is God saying to us in all this?