Quotes About Discipleship

We must show our Christian colors if we are to be true to Jesus Christ.

Childlike surrender and trust, I believe, is the defining spirit of authentic discipleship.

Through discipline, discipline is the other side of discipleship. If you want to follow Jesus, you have to have discipline.

I would not consider my spirituality worthwhile that wants to walk in sweetness and ease and run from the imitation of Christ.

God my Creator said, 'Go and make disciples.' So I don't want to sit and make excuses.

The decision to carry your cross is the one you must make. If you decide not to decide, that is a decision not to follow Christ.

To be sure, Jesus will not follow you––you are called to follow Him.

The Cost of Discipleship, his meditation on Jesus's Sermon on the Mount, disparaging the "cheap grace" of the majority of German Christians in favor of the "costly grace" that linked Christian belief to social courage.

Notice also that those saved did not reveal everything they knew about God to unbelievers. They waited until God started a relationship with the unbelievers and revealed things to them.

Students in the school of prayer never graduate from the school of the Gospel.

Still, most people need more information on how to become conformed to the image of Christ than they do on how to be converted.

An old alchemist gave the following consolation to one of his disciples: "No matter how isolated you are and how lonely you feel, if you do your work truly and conscientiously, unknown friends will come and seek you.

No young believer should ever rise quickly in the ministry.

Discipleship to Jesus was not like discipleship to a Jewish rabbi. The rabbis bound their disciples not to themselves but to the Torah; Jesus bound his disciples to himself. The rabbis offered something outside of themselves; Jesus offered himself alone.

Thus entrance into the Kingdom means participation in the church; but entrance into the church is not necessarily synonymous with entrance into the Kingdom.38

Here we find an extension of the theology of discipleship, that it will be the mission of the church to witness to the gospel of the Kingdom in the world. Israel is no longer the witness to God's Kingdom; the church has taken her place. Therefore K. E. Skydsgaard has said that the history of the Kingdom of God has become the history of Christian missions.

Mark therefore shows that the theologia crucis applies to the disciple as well as to the master. There is no room for a privileged triumphalism. "Mark campaigns against balcony-type Christians who are too high for the mission and discipleship that in Mark's terms necessarily involves cross-bearing and self-sacrifice."72

Discipleship, therefore, must necessarily be an uncomfortable process of reorientation and of abandonment of the self-centered values of human society in favor of the divine economy, in which "Many who are first will be last, and the last first" (10:31).

To be like Christ is to be a Christian.

Those who are still afraid of men have no fear of God and those who have fear of God have ceased to be afraid of men." —THE COST OF DISCIPLESHIP

To be in Christ ... means to be in the church." —THE COST OF DISCIPLESHIP

You, too, are loved by the Lord, just as were the disciples of old. You are loved more than you will ever know. He wants you to be successful in your life's mission! You don't have to face the experiences of this life alone, nor have you been sent here to fail.

a man is defined biblically as "a male who has learned to submit his maleness to the lordship of Jesus Christ.

Christian leaders have leveraged our men to build church buildings and run church programs, but we have failed to disciple them in what it means to be about the kingdom. Nothing is wrong with church buildings—as long as those within it aim to use the available resources strategically to advance God's kingdom.