Who's Training You//The Apprentice//Apostle Ken Bennett

About this sermon

Who is shaping the person you are becoming? In the opening message of The Apprentice, Apostle Ken Bennett challenges us to examine the voices, habits, influences, and systems that are training our lives. Drawing from Matthew 4:18–19, this sermon explores what Jesus truly meant when He said, “Follow Me.” It was not simply an invitation to believe—it was a call to become His apprentice and organize an entire life around His teaching. Every life has a rabbi. Someone or something is shaping how we define success, manage relationships, respond to suffering, spend our time, and make decisions. The question is not whether you are being formed, but who is forming you. This message confronts the difference between information and transformation. Church attendance, biblical knowledge, spiritual gifts, and religious language mean very little when they never change our character, habits, relationships, and way of living. Jesus did not come only to change what we know. He came to change who we become. Peter was not searching for a rabbi when Jesus found him. He was working, living an ordinary life, and likely believed advanced discipleship was not meant for someone like him. Yet Jesus stepped into his everyday world and invited him into a new way of life: “Come be My apprentice.” No matter where you are, what you have done, or what has tried to define you, Jesus is still coming for you. You do not have to clean yourself up before responding. You simply have to accept the invitation and allow Him to do the work of transformation. In this message, you will learn: • Why every life has a rabbi • How culture, anxiety, habits, and relationships reveal what is training you • The difference between believing in Jesus and following Jesus • Why knowledge without transformation is incomplete • What it means to become an apprentice of Jesus • Why one invitation can change everything • How Jesus finds and calls people who feel overlooked, rejected, or unqualified Scripture References: Matthew 4:18–19 Romans 12:2 1 Peter 1:14 John 3:2 John 10:10 Matthew 28:19–20 Subscribe and turn on notifications as we continue The Apprentice: Recovering the Lost Art of Becoming Like Jesus. Share this message with someone who is ready to move beyond simply attending church and begin organizing their life around Jesus. #TheApprentice #WhosTrainingYou #FollowJesus #Discipleship #ChristianLiving #SpiritualFormation #Transformation #Matthew4 #JesusIsRabbi #ApostleKenBennett #ConnectChurch #Sermon #BibleTeaching #Faith #ChristianSermon