Disciple Making 101: 2 Timothy 2:1-10, 15

July 6, 2025 2 Timothy 2:1-10, 15 Rev. Thomas M. Cox

DISCIPLE-MAKING 101 #2:  THE METHOD OF MULTIPLICATION 

KEY QUESTIONS:

• WHAT ARE DISCIPLES?

• WHAT DO DISCIPLES DO?
  

• HOW DO WE MAKE DISCIPLES? 

THE METHOD OF MULTIPLICATION

• THE OLD TESTAMENT PRECEDENT

Genesis 1:28 And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

• Principles from our Passage

• M________ing Discipleship: F______ful (full of faith), Able to Teach (teachable)

• Disciples are strengthened by G_______:

• Be willing to:

• S________ as a soldier-

• C_________ as an athlete-

• W__________ like a farmer (vs. 15)-
  

2 Timothy 2:1-10, 15 (ESV, emphases mine)

You then, my child, be strengthened by the grace that is in Christ Jesus, 2 and what you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses entrust to faithful men, who will be able to teach others also. 3 Share in suffering as a good soldier of Christ Jesus. 4 No soldier gets entangled in civilian pursuits, since his aim is to please the one who enlisted him. 5 An athlete is not crowned unless he competes according to the rules. 6 It is the hard-working farmer who ought to have the first share of the crops. 7 Think over what I say, for the Lord will give you understanding in everything.

8 Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, the offspring of David, as preached in my gospel, 9 for which I am suffering, bound with chains as a criminal. But the word of God is not bound! 10 Therefore I endure everything for the sake of the elect, that they also may obtain the salvation that is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.

 15 Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.