Quotes About Discipleship

Who helps you become a disciple of Jesus Christ? Who do you help become a disciple? Let's go into all the nations and into our own neighborhoods to share Christ and strengthen others as we go about our lives.

Mark "had neither heard the Lord, nor had he followed him

Ministry is following Jesus and fishing for people. It is being a disciple and making disciples. It is growing and going. It is learning and evangelizing. It is being saved and leading others to do the same.

The small group is the most strategic training environment used by Christ to make the kind of disciples that glorify God.

Disciple making is about comprehensive training in obedience leading to reproduction and multiplication.

What if Jesus had stopped at level one? What would have happened to Christianity after He ascended into heaven? Christianity would definitely not have spread throughout the world. It probably would have disappeared soon after that first generation of believers passed away. Why is Christianity on a steep decline in North America? Could it be that, in part, we have failed to take people all the way through the process. We have stopped too soon, failing to lead people past level one?

Es el cuidadoso cultivo de una manera de vivir centrada en Dios, semejante a Cristo, dirigida por el carácter y el sentido común.

Who continues in God's Word and experiences freedom in Christ. John 8:31–32 states, "So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed Him, 'If you continue in My word, you really are My disciples. You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.

Discipleship in the church today has more to do with consuming and absorbing cognitive content than it has anything to do with missional action.

He took, He blessed, He brake, and He gave. These four steps follow in progressive order in the lives of each of His disciples. He takes us into His arms when He saves us. He blesses us with the Holy Spirit. He breaks us at the cross. He gives us to others in ministry. We must experience the breaking of our self-life, however, before He can give us to His body as a ministry gift.

It is essential for us all to realize that admitting to brokenness is not to doubt the healing and restoring grace of God. Rather, the brokenness needs to call us to a dynamic discipleship, which grows through faith beyond the mere acknowledgment that brokenness is all that we can expect from life.

Discipleship is a commitment to the memory and presence of Jesus Christ that makes a difference in how a life is lived, driving thought and behavior week in and week out.

live more humanly, bravely, and compassionately in such circumstances, mainly through a call to discipleship

Small groups are the place to push past Bible knowledge and on to life application so that we can see people's lives transform more and more into the image of Christ.

Our job is to get people to Jesus Christ and to get them back to Him in profound, life-altering ways every week.

We are less interested in the number of disciples and more interested in the quality of discipleship.

You simply cannot be a disciple without being a missionary—a sent one. For way too long discipleship has been limited to issues relating to our own personal morality and worked out in the context of the four walls of the church with its privatized religion.

C. S. Lewis rightly understood that the purpose of the church was to draw people to Christ and make them like Christ. He said that the church exists for no other purpose. "If the Church is not doing this, then all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible, are a waste of time.

Discipleship is all about adherence to Christ.

The Christians' focus was not on "saving" people or recruiting them; it was on living faithfully—in the belief that when people's lives are rehabituated in the way of Jesus, others will want to join them.

As Tertullian put it around AD 200, "Christians are made, not born." 4

It takes but a moment to make a convert; it takes a lifetime to manufacture a saint.

Look at where Jesus went to pick people. He didn't go to the colleges; he got guys off the fishing docks.

What is necessary is the faith that leads to obedience and to discipleship.