Quotes About Discipleship

Who is this Judas? Who is the betrayer? Faced with this question, are we capable of more than asking with the disciples: "Surely not I, Lord?

If our Christianity has ceased to be serious about discipleship, if we have watered down the gospel into emotional uplift which makes no costly demands and which fails to distinguish between natural and Christian existence, then we cannot help regarding the cross as an ordinary everyday calamity, as one of the trials and tribulations of life. We have then forgotten that the cross means rejection and shame as well as suffering.

Costly grace is the treasure hidden in the field; for the sake of it a man will gladly go and sell all that he has. It is the pearl of great price to buy which the merchant will sell all his goods. It is the kingly rule of Christ, for whose sake a man will pluck out the eye which causes him to stumble; it is the call of Jesus Christ at which the disciple leaves his nets and follows him.

Cheap grace is the grace we bestow on ourselves. Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, Communion without confession...Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate.

Discipleship is not an offer that man makes to Christ.

61 Y otro le dijo: Yo te seguiré, Señor, pero primero déjame ir a despedirme de mi casa. 62 Le respondió Jesús: Ninguno que después de haber puesto su mano en el arado y vuelve los ojos atrás, es apto para el reino de Dios. 10

26 Habiendo mirado pues Jesús a su madre, y al discípulo que él amaba, el cual estaba allí, dice a su madre: Mujer, ahí tienes a tu hijo. 27 Después dice al discípulo: Ahí tienes a tu madre. Y desde aquel punto se encargó de ella el discípulo, y la tuvo consigo en su casa. 28

On subsequent visits I expanded further on the life and ministry of Jesus

Second, the entire world needs to be re-evangelized, including the vast majority of baptized Christians.

Salvation is free, but discipleship will cost you your life

Following Christ is not a casual or occasional practice but a continuous commitment and way of life that applies at all times and in all places.

The road that leads to heaven is risky, lonely, and costly in this world, and few are willing to pay the price. Following Jesus involves losing your life-and finding new life in him.

You have only one model, Jesus. Follow, follow, follow him, step by step, imitating him, sharing his life in every way.

Take steps each day to be sure your life expresses commitment to Jesus.

My central claim is that we can become like Christ by doing one thing -- by following him in the overall style of life he chose for himself.

Even the smallest act of discipleship or the tiniest ember of belief can become a blazing bonfire of a consecrated life.

The cost of discipleship is to live the life God has given us, serving in mundane ways the people he's put in our path.

If we are going to persevere as committed disciples of Jesus Christ over the course of our lives, we must always keep the gospel of God's forgiveness through Christ before us.

It is only the joy of hearing the gospel and being reminded that our sins are forgiven in Christ that will keep the demands of discipleship from becoming drudgery. It is only gratitude and love to God that comes from knowing that He no longer counts our sins against us (Romans 4:8) that provides the proper motive for responding to the claims of discipleship.

God has called every Christian to a holy life. There are no exceptions to this call. It

Saying no to ungodliness and worldly passions basically means a decisive break with those attitudes and practices. In one sense, this decisive break is a divine act that occurred when we died to the dominion of sin in our lives. In another sense, we're to work out this breach with sin by putting to death the misdeeds of the body (Romans 8:13).

Stephanie and I went to a weekend discipleship retreat, Firefall, in the beginning of February, and all I could talk about was what Jason and I were going to do for Valentine's Day. "Do you think he is going to kiss you?" she asked as I applied a light blush. The look I was going for was sexy but saved. Come hither but leave room for the Lord.

Discipleship...a process of unleashing the creative potential in each person.

he never discouraged the disciples from wanting to be first; he just told them what first looks like in his economy: If you want to be first, then you must be last. If you want to be first, you must become the servant of all. He didn't try to diminish their ambition; he tried to redirect their intention.