Put the word out that we back up

Pouring one out for the books knocked out in the last round of the qualifiers

Saying yes to Christ means being His disciple. The Greek Word for disciple means mathētēs (μαθητής), which means a learner, student, or apprentice. 

This only signifies that in the process of becoming a learner and a follower, you have to be disciplined in able for you to be like Him.

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Are you in Mathetes Bible study and are in need of catching up? Anyone interested in watching The Chosen is invited to join us for a watch party to catch up with season 3 in the Youth Room. Lunch is provided.

He worships a God of infinity. Amen. He is a disciple, a “MATHetes” in Greek.

Now there was in Joppa a disciple named Tabitha. Acts 9:36

Luke uses the word μαθήτρια (mathētria), disciple, the feminine form of μαθητής (mathētēs).

Single NT occurrence.

O sweet exchange! O unsearchable operation! O benefits surpassing all expectation! That the wickedness of many should be hid in a single righteous One, and that the righteousness of One should justify many transgressors!

~Mathetes to Diognetus

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(1) Wilderness - is there liminal land?
(2) Exile - alienation from the land
(3) Tension of Inheritance and Displacement - Conquest narrative is…complicated
(4) Epistle to Mathetes and Justin Martyr’s visions of Christian communities re: the land.

I feel like you're going to be the leader of the local hooligans, only the hooligans are also star mathetes.