GOAL

GOAL	SCRIPTURE
1. To find out what Yeshua is like in order to become more like Him.	If I then, [your] Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another's feet. For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you. Verily, verily, I say unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord; neither he that is sent greater than he that sent him. If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them. John 13:14-17
2. To increase your knowledge of the credentials of the Scriptures and of Yeshua	I speak not of you all: I know whom I have chosen: but that the scripture may be fulfilled, He that eateth bread with me hath lifted up his heel against me. Now I tell you before it come, that, when it is come to pass, ye may believe that I am [He]. John 13:18-19 (See also John 14:29)
3. To learn the what and the how of becoming more loving.	A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. By this shall all [men] know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another. John 13:34-35 (See also John 17:25-26
4. To increase your understanding of our new status and destiny of Children of God.	Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's house are many mansions: if [it were] not [so], I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, [there] ye may be also. John 14:1-3
5. To increase your understanding of who God is and what He is like	Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him. Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us. Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou [then], Shew us the Father? Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works. John 14:6-10
6. To discover the ways and means of super-natural living so that in our daily lives we may ex-perience and express the pleasant difference that God makes.	Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater [works] than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father. John 14:12
7. To present oppor-tunities for answered prayer by making our requests known to God.	And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do [it]. John 14:13-14
8. To develop an under-standing of the way in which God wants us to live, that we might obey Him and have more intimate fellowship with Him.	If ye love me, keep my commandments. And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; [Even] the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you. Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also. At that day ye shall know that I [am] in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you. He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him. John 14:15-21 see also 23-24
9. To live spiritually fruitful lives.	I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman ....Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. I am the vine, ye [are] the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. John 15:1, 4-5
10. To increase our joy.	These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and [that] your joy might be full. John 15:11
11. To be prepared to recognize and deal with hindrances to our spiritual lives.	If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before [it hated] you....If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you.... But when the Comforter is come....he shall testify of me. And ye also shall bear witness...These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be offended (made to stumble). John 15:18 - 16:1
12. To increase our peace.	These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world. John 16:33