{"id":791,"date":"2015-04-25T17:04:04","date_gmt":"2015-04-25T21:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobilediscipleship.org\/?p=791"},"modified":"2020-03-22T13:38:57","modified_gmt":"2020-03-22T17:38:57","slug":"day-34-of-40-days-of-discipleship-jesus-is-the-vine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mobilediscipleship.org\/day-34-of-40-days-of-discipleship-jesus-is-the-vine\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 34 of 40 Days of Discipleship: Jesus is the Vine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John 15:5<i><br \/>\n\u201cI am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit;\u00a0apart from me you can do nothing.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/i>We have discussed the DNA of discipleship,but without Jesus these things are just religious activity. Think about Jesus being our life. Think about how he saves and frees us from the devil\u2019s work. How he works in us, guides us, teaches us, and prays for us. He calls us friends. We are to abide in Him and let Him live his life through us. We are to obey what he taught us and let him be the rock on which we build our lives. We are to imitate him even to the point of taking up the cross, identifying with his death and living the new life he provides. We need to be sure to build our learning around Jesus and not have discipleship activities be an end in themselves. This is a challenge in spiritual formation: to keep Christ central.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mobilediscipleship.org\/40-days-app\/\">Instructions<\/a>\u00a0on how to\u00a0subscribe to the 40 Days of Discipleship \u00a0APP in GoTandem, with audio, on your smart phone or computer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John 15:5 \u201cI am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit;\u00a0apart from me you can do nothing.&#8221; We have discussed the DNA of discipleship,but without Jesus these things are just religious activity. Think about Jesus being our life. Think about how he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,4,29,28,27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mobilediscipleship.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mobilediscipleship.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mobilediscipleship.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobilediscipleship.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobilediscipleship.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mobilediscipleship.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mobilediscipleship.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobilediscipleship.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobilediscipleship.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}