Salt Life is our discipleship initiative that has at its core a desire to see everyone living for the glory of Jesus in all areas of their lives:
At Dixiana we long for our legacy to be a church that is passionate about Local & Global Disciple-Making.
We owe a great debt to Dr.David Platt at The Church at Brookhills for clearly communicating what we all need to be about, here is what we as a church are going to endeavor to do to become a people who are making disciples.
Share the Word – Active Revealing of the Word
The first component of disciple making is “sharing the word”, the gospel, with others. Jesus’ strategy of disciple making with His small group was focused on preparing His disciples to effectively share the word after he left them. From the beginning of His ministry, He told them to follow Him and He would make them fishers of men. He then shared the Word (the gospel) with clarity to his group, modeled sharing the gospel everywhere they went, and equipped and involved them in sharing the gospel alongside Him so that He could eventually ‘Share the word’ through them, involve them and equip them to share with others, and eventually ‘share the word’ through them as they multiply their group and begin new groups.
Show the Word – Active living of the word
The second component of disciple making is ‘Showing the word’. Jesus strategy of disciple-making did not revolve around a class where He just told His followers how to live, instead His life and the word was the curriculum. In the context of spiritual community, He sought daily to demonstrate to His group how to live in obedience to the Father as they did life together. Jesus, the living word, showed them how to live, and then encouraged and equipped them with His Spirit to demonstrate to one another and the lost world how to live a life that pleases God by his/her own lifestyle, and should encourage and equip their group to ‘Show the Word’ to one another as they do life together in spiritual community and as they seek to fulfill the mission of Christ making disciples locally and globally.
Teach the Word – Active Training in the Word
The third component of disciple-making is ‘Teaching the Word’. Jesus strategy of disciple-making involved helping His group understand the Word of God so they could ‘show the word’ by their lives and so they could teach the word to one another and to others. The word was always central in their fellowship with one another and was the supreme authority for understanding everything about God and life. Disciple-makers likewise should make studying, understanding, and applying the word central to their fellowship of their group. They should encouraged their group to study the word in a way that they can teach it and demonstrate it to others as they engage in making disciples locally and globally.
Serve the World – Actively living incarnate in the world
The fourth component of disciple-making is ‘Serving the World’. Jesus strategy of disciple-making was not to hold classes in a building and invite lost people to come to Him, but to go where the people were and demonstrate God’s love to them up close by His actions (showing the Word) so He could share the Word, the gospel, with them. He did not go alone to serve the world, but took His group with Him so He could show them how to serve the world, involve them in serving the world with Him, and equip and send them into all the world to make disciples in His name as He sought to reach the world through them. Disciple-makers likewise should seek to lead their group to serve the world locally and globally so that together they can ‘share the word’ and make disciples for the glory of Christ.
Small groups are one of the ways we use to help folks grow in community and learn how to walk in grace.
by Small group we mean:
- Approximately 8-12 believers sharing life together.
- Growing inward by showing the Word and teaching the Word.
- Growing outward by sharing the Word and serving the world.
Current Small Groups:
Adult Sunday Morning class meets at 9:45am
Young Ladies “Dateable” class meets at 6:00pm Sunday evenings.
