Quotes about Discipleship

We cannot behave "on the spot" as he did and taught if in the rest of our time we live as everybody else does.

Anyone who is not a continual student of Jesus, and who nevertheless reads the great promises of the Bible as if they were for him or her, is like someone trying to cash a check on another person's account. At best, it succeeds only sporadically.

Our relationship with Jesus, which he argued ultimately allows us to establish a relationship with the kingdom of God. This relationship is one of discipleship in which we learn to live our lives as Jesus would through progressively embodying and manifesting a Christlike character, which is attained through establishing a discipling relationship to Jesus.

Discipleship is for the sake of the world, not for the sake of the church. It is carried out in those situations where people spend their life.

The governing assumption today, among professing Christians, is that we can be "Christians" forever and never become disciples.

In short, nondiscipleship costs you exactly that abundance of life Jesus said he came to bring (John 10:10). The cross-shaped yoke of Christ is after all an instrument of liberation and power to those who live in it with him and learn the meekness and lowliness of heart that brings rest to the soul.

So my first point is simply: life in Christ has to do with obedience to his teaching.

We've got to move from membership to discipleship to being full-time Christians, not part-time saints. That means operating comprehensively on the value system of Heaven as we move about in history.

If you are saved, the work is only half done until you are employed to bring others to Christ.

This problem is pervasive within the community of believers: Christians don't know the content of their faith and show little concern about their ignorance. This

A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.

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