"If you make My Word your home, you will indeed be My disciples" (John 8:31)

Disciples of Jesus Christ:
 

1. Place themselves under the power and authority of Scripture
   
2. Know they belong to God, that God has claim on them
   
3. Acknowledge their rebellion, accept responsibility for their sin, and repent
   
4. Respond to God's call to enter the covenant community of faith and express commitment to the covenant through the tithe
   
5. Hear and obey God's call to be bearers of God's message of deliverance
   
6. Keep God's law by doing it
   
7. Commit themselves to corporate worship
   
8. Provide a sense of direction and purpose through godly, obedient leadership
   
9. Maintain a perspective on leadership that supports and respects godly leaders but give true allegiance only to God
   
10. Recognize and listen to prophetic voices raised about community, nation, and world and at times become the prophetic voice
    
11. Accept consequences of their sin, seek forgiveness, look for healing and new opportunities for faithfulness
    
12. Choose to serve rather than to despair when suffering the consequences of sin
    
13. Trust God with all their thoughts and feelings
    
14. Strive to live in harmony with God's laws even though obedience is costly
    
15. Trust God in the face of unexplained suffering
    
16. Sense their unity with the historic people of God and live in hope with a vision of God's kingdom
    
17. Hear the gospel of Jesus Christ in the context of unity with the historic people of God
    
18. Accept Christ's call to radical discipleship
    
19. Abandon sham and pretense, become vulnerable, and enter the ministry of making disciples
    
20. Understand their ministry as a call to self-denial and suffering
    
21. Throw their weight with God's mission to the least, the last, the lost
    
22. Experience life in Jesus Christ
    
23. Sense the inner assurance of abundant, eternal life
    
24. Experience the presence and the power of the Holy Spirit in their life
    
25. Witness to others in order to lead them to Jesus Christ
    
26. Receive and trust the forgiving love of God in Jesus Christ and serve out of love and gratitude
    
27. Love
    
28. Experience and express freedom as loving God and loving neighbor
    
29. Seek sound teaching under the guidance of faithful leaders
    
30. Accept God's forgiveness
    
31. Know themselves as distinctive, peculiar people bearing the inner mark of character and the outer mark of compassion
    
32. Remain faithful to God in the midst of persecution and suffering
    
33. Use their gifts in ministry to others
    
34. Commit their life completely to God to serve as God wills