2 Kings 2 isn’t a cute Bible-college brochure. It’s a field manual. In this 2015 message, Pastor Greg Mitchell contrasts the “sons of the prophets” model with Elisha’s gritty, relational discipleship. Result: information alone never produced a prophet, but impartation and obedience did.
Key themes
- Bible school vs. Bible method
- Three traps: head-knowledge pride, spectator Christianity, lip-service to headship
- Five marks of real discipleship: impartation, direction, cost, service, supernatural power
- “Double portion” = inheritance and authority to lead
Scriptures: 2 Kings 2; 1 Kings 19:19–21; James 1:22; Luke 5:4; Matthew 28:19.
Chapters
00:00 – Opening and text: 2 Kings 2
00:34 – Diagnosis: culture in decline
02:20 – Do Bible schools fix it?
04:42 – Origins of “sons of the prophets”
07:01 – Why prophet school didn’t work
09:17 – Pastor Mitchell’s Bible-school experience
13:01 – Our DNA: a discipleship movement
15:18 – Clash with denomination over Bible school
17:40 – The new drift back to schooling
20:06 – Mistake #1: Information ≠ qualification
23:16 – Mistake #2: Proximity without participation
27:29 – Mistake #3: Mouth “submission,” resist direction
33:17 – What works: the marks of discipleship
35:42 – Cost and service before microphones
37:42 – Don’t go to a gunfight without the supernatural
40:56 – “Double portion” explained: inheritance and authority
43:23 – Call to repentance and challenge to act
Show Notes
ALL PROCEEDS GO TO WORLD EVANGELISM
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