Teach Them To Obey - All That I Have Commanded You

by Duncan Matheson, Bruxy Cavey (Foreword by), Jeanette M Windle (Editor)

Overview

A unique and comprehensive analysis of all the commands of Jesus, grouped and summarised into a simple-to-remember form of three high-level and nine lower-level themes.

This reference source for pastors and teachers presents a comprehensive biblical foundation to address our (the church's) 'failure' to teach disciples to obey all the commands of Jesus.

A detailed analysis of all of the commands of Jesus in the New Testament forms the basis for this work, grouping and summarising them into twelve themes that collectively present over eighty distinct commands (Kingdom Behaviours).

The main material is grouped under three Kingdom Fundamental headings. Two are outward focused - commands that relate to our need to 'Love God' and the requirement to 'Love Your Neighbour As Yourself'. The third addresses commands directed at our inner motivations and behaviours as individuals, under the Kingdom Fundamental title 'Follow Jesus'.

Each chapter includes Kingdom Practice sub-sections: two under 'Love God', four under 'Follow Jesus' and three under 'Love Your Neighbour As Yourself'.

At the lowest level (Kingdom Behaviours), related commands of Jesus are quoted, with any parallel biblical texts highlighted.

Diagrams are included throughout to build and demonstrate the simple structure that is the focus of this material.

This is for anyone with an interest in Jesus's teaching. Above all, those who are discipling fellow followers of Jesus and/or simply want to understand how Jesus's commands can be grouped into a simple to remember structure.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781916440500
Publisher:	Ttto Limited
Publication date:	04/18/2019
Series:	Teach Them to Obey , #1
Pages:	102
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.21(d)

About the Author

Duncan had a long-term career in technical and then management consultancy rising to the most senior consulting rank of Director within a leading UK Consulting firm. For more than 20 years he focused on the analysis and structuring of data to draw out meaningful information and insights. He then structured this to deliver clear, value adding, easy to understand client reports, articles, and conference papers. Duncan has applied this capability to create this unique perspective on all the commands of Jesus in these books - targeted at helping readers to become more intentional disciples by understanding and then putting into practice the key messages from Jesus's teaching. Duncan also gained extensive experience of project specification, procurement, and management in the transport and information technology sectors and worked for British and foreign Government Departments and international institutions. He became a respected transport sector thought leader with over 18 years in that field. His career began with an Aircraft Engineering Apprenticeship after which he obtained an MSc degree and, subsequently, a postgraduate Diploma in Management Studies (with Distinction).
 He 'retired' early in 2014 and quickly became involved as a volunteer with an international missions organisation where he is currently part of the London team. Duncan has been married since 1985 and both his father and grandfather were Christian ministers. They have one son and daughter-in-law (and two young grandsons) who are in ministry with Youth With A Mission (YWAM) in the UK. Duncan became a follower of Jesus in 1987 and has been an Elder in one fellowship and is currently a Deacon in his home Baptist church where he has oversight of Safeguarding and leads the World-Wide Missions Team. Outside these responsibilities, he enjoys time with family, keeping fit, cooking, gardening, photography and travel - primarily to see wildlife.

Bruxy Cavey is the senior pastor at The Meeting House, a church for people who aren't into church. The Meeting House is a multisite Anabaptist congregation in Ontario, Canada where thousands of people connect with God and each other through a widespread house church network, Sunday services, and online interactions (www.themeetinghouse.com). Bruxy is also author of the bestselling book, The End of Religion and his latest book, reUnion, is an overview of "The Good News of Jesus for Seekers, Saints, and Sinners." Bruxy, his wife, Nina, and three daughters live in Hamilton, Ontario.

As daughter of missionary parents, award-winning author and journalist Jeanette Windle grew up in the rural villages, jungles, and mountains of Colombia, now guerrilla hot zones. In 1981, Jeanette graduated magna cum laude with a degree in Biblical Studies and Theology from Prairie Bible College in Three Hills, Alberta. In 1985, Jeanette and her husband Martin moved to Bolivia to work with a nondenominational Christian ministry organization. While her husband served as director, Jeanette worked with women and children at risk in varied regions of Bolivia. Her detailed research and writing is so realistic that it has prompted government agencies to question her to determine if she has received classified information. Currently based in Lancaster, PA, Jeanette has lived in six countries and traveled in more than thirty on five continents. Jeanette is editor of BCM World magazine, speaks and travels extensively both in the U.S. and internationally, and serves as consulting editor and mentor in developing writers from the U.S. and Canada to Mexico, Guatemala, Ecuador, Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Spain, Croatia, Philippines and more. She is recipient of the 2012 AWSA (Advanced Writer Speaker Association) Beyond Me Award (Exemplifying a "You First" Life in a "Me First" World), as well as Focus on Fiction's 2005 Deserted Island Book Award (i.e. the reading material of choice if one were headed to a deserted island). Jeanette is also recipient of the South Florida Writers Association 2004 Celebrity Author's Award and 2002 Mabel Meadows Staats Award. She served for three years as VP of Publication for the South Florida Writers Association and president of Miami-Dade Christian Writers and is currently president of Lancaster Christian Writers.

Table of Contents

Reviewer Comments

Acknowledgements

Preface

Foreword

Chapter 1 – An Introductory Overview

Chapter 2 - Love God (the Trinity) – (KF1)

Chapter 3 - Follow Jesus – (KF2)

Chapter 4 - Love Your Neighbour as Yourself - (KF3)

Chapter 5 - Analysis Reflections

Appendix 1 - Further Reading on Discipleship

Appendix 2 - Summary of the Biblical Analysis

Editorial Reviews

“The last verses of Matthew’s Gospel have been called the Great Commission. Many have emphasised the challenge to ‘go’ even though it is not actually a command in the text. Some have rightly seen the call to make disciples as the principal command but have not gone on to discuss the method set out for that discipleship making – teaching people to obey the commands of Jesus and incorporating them into a new community through baptism. Duncan’s book goes some way to filling that gap. Duncan has applied his professional expertise to look systematically at the commands of Jesus as recorded in the Gospels. He classifies them as three expanding categories of Kingdom Fundamentals, Kingdom Practices, and Kingdom Behaviours. For a serious follower of Jesus, these books could prove a very useful guide for a pattern of self-examination. Church groups would benefit from studying the books together and helping one another in the path of discipleship. It would be great if as a result of Duncan’s books many more Christians exhibited the reality of Christlike living so that others might be drawn to become Jesus's disciples.” Ray Porter – Chair of Global Connections and OMF International (UK).

As a minister and a missionary, I have studied the Great Commission in Matthew 28 dozens of times, and I have desired to align my life with Jesus’s last command. Not long ago, the significance of his words,“teach them to obey everything I have commanded you”,pierced my heart. For years, I glossed over the wordobey,perhaps because I preferred to think of the task as merely listing the commands of Christ. Teaching to obey is another thing entirely. It requires my own obedience as I make disciples. Duncan Matheson’s work in this book is vital for any Christian. He categorizes more than eighty of Jesus’s commands into three Kingdom Fundamentals and nine Kingdom Practices. This isn’t a watering down of the Scriptures; it is a simplification for the purpose of practical obedience. The fourteen study sessions in the accompanying Studies for Disciples book allow us to follow Christ more closely by helping us understand the commands and work obedience into our lives. Highly recommended. Rev. Craig McClurg – Youth With A Mission, USA.

“Seeing more than eighty commands of Jesus all presented in such an approachable and structured way has gripped us right from the first chapter. As we turned the pages, we felt a combination of awed fascination alongside a deep challenge to our spirits as we were lovingly confronted with all the ways our Saviour has commanded us to live and grow. It is impossible to have all of these scriptures march across your heart and not be profoundly affected by them. It was not hard to imagine Jesus speaking them to us directly as he would have done with his disciples. Duncan has laid a challenge squarely before us in producing this work. Are we willing to obey what Jesus has commanded with no ifs and no buts? We are already considering how we might share this experience with others as we come to grips with what Duncan has so clearly drawn together in his books. We commend them highly for all those who are serious about their walk of discipleship. To read them will leave you changed.” Mark & Sue Vening – Trustees of YWAM Cymru/Wales.

“Duncan Matheson has strategically and accurately composed a wonderful resource for pastors, churches, and new believers that is bound to strengthen and encourage all in their journeys with Jesus. The use of charts and study questions draws the reader into a deeper contemplation of their role in radical obedience and practical ways to respond. Ryan Peters – Director of Donor Management - Christ for All Nations - Canada.

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