Agora Church

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?

Parable of the Net

We continue learning about The Kingdom of Heaven, and this time we learn that it is like The Parable about a Fishing Net.
As with other parables, the language in this parable is clear, concise and strong. 
It's a parable found only in Matthew and returns to a similar theme of the parables of the treasure and the pearl, where you sell all - you do what it takes - to gain the kingdom.  
On the day of judgement, when the true membership of God's kingdom is finally settled, the good will be separated from the bad. It is not for anyone to determine who are "the real Christians" - that task belongs to God. It's our task to be prepared.

Parable of the yeast

Jesus taught in parables for good reason. We’ll be exploring two of His parables this Sunday, considering how we might see growth similar to what happens to a mustard seed, and yeast in dough, in our own lives and communities.