Quotes About Discipleship

Commitment is a word that cannot stand alone. We must always ask, "Committed to what?" . . . . let us be committed to . . . using Jesus Christ as our master teacher.

Jesus never taught His disciples how to preach, only how to pray. He did not speak much of what was needed to preach well, but much of praying well. To know how to speak to God is more than knowing how to speak to man. Not power with men, but power with God is the first thing.

Jesus never taught His disciples how to preach, only how to pray. He

He chiefly used when speaking of the relations of the disciples to Himself was: Follow me. When about

take and thoroughly assimilate them. I have the hope that to some, especially young believers, it will be a help to come and for a month day after

Jesus never taught His disciples how to preach, only how to pray. He did not speak much of what was needed to preach well, but much of praying well. To

Jesus did not teach His disciples how to preach but how to pray. To know how to speak to God is more vital than knowing how to speak to men. It is power with God not man that is of supreme

we offer ourselves as learners; we would indeed be taught of Thee. 'Lord, teach us to pray.

Jesus never taught His disciples how to preach, only how to pray.

Bonhoeffer knew that when the church stops talking about Jesus, it has nothing to say. And when it assumes dominance, it's not talking about Jesus.

There are two dimensions of discipleship. Ons is the learning of habits and the forming of character, the shaping of commitments and the inscribing of rhythms, the training in disciplines and the facing of sacrifices, Some people speak as if that were the only part. But the other dimension is perhaps even more important. It is the acknowledgment of weakness, the asking for help, the naming of failure, the request for forgiveness, the desire for reconciliation, and the longing for restoration.

By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.

Believers are also trained in obedience by means of the cross. For thus they are taught to live according to God's will rather than their own. If everything went according to their own plans, they would never know what it means to follow God.

The life of the Christian can be an imitation of Christ (imitatio Christi) only because it is first a participation in Christ (participatio Christi

The Catechism was not written to please you. It will not make life easy for you, because it demands of you a new life.

If you have believed but not obeyed, you have postponed your Christian life.

For too many of us religion has come by inheritance. We have never said to God as Job did, "I had heard of You, Lord, by the hearing of the ear, but now I have seen You." In other words, "Now I have seen You with my own eyes. Now I know you personally." Most of us have become disciples of the disciples of the disciples of someone in the past who had personally experienced God. But it is impossible to transmit real love or commitment this way.

Nothing avails: every master has but one disciple, and that one becomes unfaithful to him, for he too is destined for mastership.   [408]

I wish not merely to be called Christian, but also to be Christian.

What you present as the gospel will determine what you present as discipleship. If you present as the gospel what is essentially a theory of the atonement, and you say, 'If you accept this theory of the atonement, your sins are forgiven, and when you die you will be received into heaven,' there is no basis for discipleship.

Christians are nonviolent not, therefore, because we believe that nonviolence is a strategy to rid the world of war, but because nonviolence is constitutive of what it means to be a disciple to Jesus.

spiritual transformation is central to the message of the gospel and therefore central to the mission of the church.

We shall not become like Christ until we give Him more time.

Our determination to imitiate Christ should be such that we have no time for other matters.