Welcome to Roseville Covenant Church!

This Sunday we will turn the page from our series in The Creed, and shift to a brief sermon series called “Faithful and Fruitful” to round out our summer together.  This 3-week series will invite us to double-click on each of our aims and priorities at RCC, beginning with ‘Becoming Disciples’.

The Christian life is one of becoming a disciple of Jesus. Sometimes we think becoming a Christian is relegated to a conversion moment or praying a certain prayer that eventually leads to becoming a disciple. But what if it is more about learning to follow Jesus in our everyday lives?  When Jesus calls the first disciples, he simply says “follow me”, and they do. We are not told if this is a conversion moment. Simply that they are curious enough to begin following Jesus.

The Greek word for “disciple” is “mathetes” (μαθητής). It simply means “learner”. I would contend that the Christian life, then, is about “learning to follow Jesus” as a lifelong pursuit, a “holy obedience in the same direction” to quote the late great Eugene Peterson. Discipleship involves responding to Jesus and participating with him in the ordinary spaces.