Discipleship Pathway

Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.”

We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.

But he answered, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”

And he told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart.

The next day, as they were on their journey and approaching the city, Peter went up on the housetop about the sixth hour to pray.

and said to them, “Thus it is written, that the Christ should suffer and on the third day rise from the dead, and that repentance for the forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.

but in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect,

And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector.

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.

So the disciples determined, every one according to his ability, to send relief to the brothers living in Judea.

Each one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.

As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God’s varied grace:

For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them.

But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him.

And they devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers.

If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector.

teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”

And he said, “How can I, unless someone guides me?” And he invited Philip to come up and sit with him.

And he said to all, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.

So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.

even us whom he has called, not from the Jews only but also from the Gentiles?

Truly, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.

While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.”

At the same time, pray also for us, that God may open to us a door for the word, to declare the mystery of Christ, on account of which I am in prison—

In these days he went out to the mountain to pray, and all night he continued in prayer to God. And when day came, he called his disciples and chose from them twelve, whom he named apostles:

Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they are keeping watch over your souls, as those who will have to give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be of no advantage to you.

And when they had appointed elders for them in every church, with prayer and fasting they committed them to the Lord in whom they had believed.