Quotes about Discipleship

What is discipleship? It is primarily obedience to the Savior. Discipleship includes many things. It is chastity. It is tithing. It is family home evening. It is keeping all the commandments. It is forsaking anything that is not good for us.

Jesus called his disciples to "follow me," but he didn't tell them where they were going.

disciples are not copiers of Christ but continuing incarnations of Jesus' life and love.

Followership starts with Jesus, stays with Jesus, goes with Jesus, and ends with Jesus.

The church doesn't lose its kids when they go to college. We start losing them in middle school. We lose children in the church when we send them out of worship to children's church or Sunday school. This is one reason why Jesus kept insisting, "Let the little children come to me."[222

If anyone makes himself his own master in the spiritual life, he makes himself scholar to a fool.

Spiritual transformation into Christ-likeness in not going to happen unless we act... What transforms us is the will to obey Jesus Christ.

In most Christian circles you will rarely hear fasting mentioned, and few will have read anything about it. And yet it's mentioned in Scripture more times even than something as important as baptism (about seventy-seven times for fasting to seventy-five for baptism).

We could summarize the views of our Christian heroes across the centuries with a sentence from Jonathan Edwards: "Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church".

So while we cannot be godly without the practice of the Disciplines, we can practice the Disciplines without being godly if we see them as ends and not means.

Have we even begun to be Christians?

Church attendance is as vital to a disciple as a transfusion of rich, healthy blood to a sick man.