Week 4: Wednesday Discipleship Guide

  • Hebrews 8:6-12

    But as it is, Christ has obtained a ministry that is as much more excellent than the old as the covenant he mediates is better, since it is enacted on better promises. For if that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no occasion to look for a second.

    For he finds fault with them when he says:

    “Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord,
        when I will establish a new covenant with the house of Israel
        and with the house of Judah,
    not like the covenant that I made with their fathers
        on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt.
    For they did not continue in my covenant,
        and so I showed no concern for them, declares the Lord.
    For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel
        after those days, declares the Lord:
    I will put my laws into their minds,
        and write them on their hearts,
    and I will be their God,
        and they shall be my people.
    And they shall not teach, each one his neighbor
        and each one his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’
    for they shall all know me,
        from the least of them to the greatest.
    For I will be merciful toward their iniquities,
        and I will remember their sins no more.”

  • Philippians 2:12-16

    Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, so now, not only as in my presence but much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure.

    Do all things without grumbling or disputing, that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world, holding fast to the word of life, so that in the day of Christ I may be proud that I did not run in vain or labor in vain.

  • Q-What does God require for true righteousness before Him?

    A-True righteousness before God is not based on outward religious practices or identity, but on an inward transformation of the heart by the Holy Spirit, demonstrated through obedience to His will.

  • Ezekiel 36:26-27

    And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to obey my rules.

  • *Establish a rhythm of cultivating devotion to Jesus.

    *Learn and internalize the Bible memory verse.

    *Commit the catechism to memory.