Quotes About Discipleship

The Bible told me to be a, "fisher of men". I'm trying, but it gets so exhausting to have to reel them in just to throw them back once you realize it's just another crappie.

Do not lower the standard or cater to the worldly laxness of the average Christian by making the way in easy. Make sure that everyone who joins fully understands his duties and obligations and is willing, in Christ's strength, to undertake them.

Can this be right? An angry leader? Indeed, Jesus had this quality, and when we use it rightly, we follow Him.

When we stand before Christ and He evaluates our ministries, He will not be asking us how many people sat in the pews, watched our TV programs, gave in our telethons or filled out response cards. He is not going to evaluate us based on how many people fell under the power of God or how many healings we counted in each service. He will ask how many faithful disciples we made. I pray we make this our priority.

Be very sure, if you would train children for heaven, they are hints that ought not to be lightly set aside.

There is nothing wrong with assistants who are constantly learning from outside ministers. But there is something very wrong when these associates never seem to learn from their own pastors.

The greatest issue facing the world today, with all its heartbreaking needs, is whether those who, by profession or culture, are identified as 'Christians' will become disciples – students, apprentices, practitioners – of Jesus Christ, steadily learning from him how to live the life of the Kingdom of the Heavens into every corner of human existence.

The idea of having faith in Jesus has come to be totally isolated from being his apprentice and learning how to do what he said.

I have many deep thoughts in God, but I take my own measure, lest I perish by boasting... For I myself, though I am in chains and can comprehend heavenly things, the ranks of the angels and the hierarchy of principalities, things visible and invisible, for all this I am not yet a disciple.

If you have a group of people come together around a vision for real discipleship, people who are committed to grow, committed to change, committed to learn, then a spiritual assessment tool can work.

The golden rule for understanding spiritually is not intellect, but obedience. —Oswald Chambers

If anyone intends to come after Me, let him deny himself [forget, ignore, disown, and lose sight of himself and his own interests] and take up his cross, and [joining Me as a disciple and siding with My party] follow with Me [continually, cleaving steadfastly to Me]." (Mark 8:34 AMP)

Jesus makes it clear that to follow Him, we must first count the cost. There is a price to following Jesus, and He makes the amount certain. The price is nothing short of our lives!

I believe that no one dared to join themselves to Jesus until they had counted the cost. There was no more joining for self-seeking reasons. They came to the Lord because of who He was, not because of what He could do.

As you accepted Christ Jesus as your Lord, you must continue to follow him. Let your roots grow down into him, and let your lives be built on him. (Colossians 2:6–7 NLT)

En segundo lugar, debes aborrecer su empeño por hacer que la cruz te resulte odiosa, porque has de preferirla 'antes que los tesoros en Egipto'. Además, el Rey de Gloria te había dicho que 'todo el que quiera salvar su vida, la perderá', y 'Si alguno viene a mí, y no aborrece a su padre, y madre, y mujer, e hijos, y hermanos, y hermanas, y aun también su propia vida, no puede ser mi discípulo'.

Cuando Cristo dijo: '¿Conocen todas estas cosas?', y los discípulos hubieron dicho sí, Él añadió: 'Benditos son si las hacen'. Él no puso la bendición en el conocerlas, sino en el hacerlas

St John, on Christ's bosom, pray for me in the days of my discipleship, in the house of my faith, in the hour of my death.

Discipleship is crucial to our ultimate destiny, but its cost is total commitment.

I like this little animal so much, and since my new name is Pawe? [Paul], I think his should be Piotr [Peter]. Then we can be two disciples!

When Jesus developed leaders, He often said, "Follow this example," as in communion, or, "Teach and baptize like this," as in the Great Commission. If Jesus reproduced leaders after His "own kind," don't you think we will too?

If we are not willing to wake up in the morning and die to ourselves, perhaps we should ask ourselves whether or not we are really following Jesus.

When the Lord Jesus Christ comes to purge His threshing floor, He shall punish all who are not His disciples with a fearful punishment. All who are found impenitent and unbelieving—all who have held the truth in unrighteousness—all who have clung to sin, stuck to the world, and set their affection on things below—all who are without Christ. All such shall come to an awful end. Christ shall "burn up the chaff!

La conversión no se trata de poner al convertido en un cómodo sillón y llevarlo sentado al cielo. Es el comienzo de una tremenda batalla, en la cual cuesta mucho obtener la victoria. De allí, la enorme importancia de "calcular el costo".