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IDMC guiding principles

Championing Christ-centred discipleship:
1. Faith worth having: understanding the heart of the gospel
2. Master worth following: understanding heart of Jesus
3. Cause worth pursuing: understanding cross & missions
4. Life worth having: understanding our kingdom destiny
- p. 153-4

IDMC’s biblical core convictions:
1. Jesus is coming soon (Rev 22:20)
2. World evangelisation is urgent (Mk 13:10)
3. Intentional discipleship is key to evangelisation (Mat 28:18-20)
4. Authentic, biblical discipleship in Jesus (Mat 4:19)
- p. 151

IDMC disciple-making philosophy:
“A person, radically committed to a purpose, through a process, reproducing a product.”
- p. 151

Unlike other transport, a plane cannot stand still or reverse; it must move forward for aerodynamics to overcome gravity. Similarly, disciples must move forward and upward. - p. 146

Come clean with God to draw close to Him. - p. 140

Humans’ four fundamental longings: justice, relationships, beauty, God - N. T. Wright’s Simply Christian, p. 139

Our redemption in Jesus is: complete, eternal, free, transformational. - p. 124-131

Radical discipleship is a redemptive not regimental journey. - p. 123

Radical discipleship fundamentals:
1. Surrender > commitment: being > doing, character > competence, inward > outward, obedience > operations, submission > strength, illusion of control
2. Discipline > devotion: action > thought/knowledge, reality > intention
3. Empowering > effort: baptism of Holy Spirit > conversion, power > form
- p. 96-105

Four difficulties of our age for discipleship (Edmund Chan in A Certain Kind):
1. Spirit of consumerism
2. Struggle of carnality
3. Stress of compulsiveness
4. Superficiality of conformity
- p. 93-94

“We are settling for a Christianity that revolves around catering to ourselves, when the central message is actually about abandoning ourselves.” - David Platt, p. 91

We assume God’s calling is vocational. So, we seek for the call of God in terms of geography and employer. However, God’s retentive call is firstly a call to intimacy, unto himself. - p. 86-87

The development of character is not by never failing; character is developed through the reality of returning to Christ in the pain of the fall and failure.
- p. 84-85

Richard Rohr, in Adam’s Return:
“All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain.”
- p. 84

D. A. Carson, in The Expositor’s Bible Commentary:
“The kingdom of heaven is worth infinitely more than the cost of discipleship, and those who know where treasure lies joyfully abandon everything else to secure it.”
- p. 83