Quotes about Discipleship

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.

Following Christ means following him through life, following him in every word and gesture, following him out of one clime into another.

There is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve.

Jesus called fishermen, not graduates of rabbinical schools. The main requirement was to be natural and sincere.

God's purpose for my life is to increasingly grow in my personal knowledge of God as I follow Him in a life of faith. And then to make Him known to others.

I could fill my whole time doing interviews, speaking to crowds, and there's this natural human tendency because of our culture to think that the more people I talk to, the bigger the impact I'll have, and yet Jesus didn't spend His time just speaking to the masses. He spent the bulk of his time with a small group of people.

The Christian life is a life that consists of following Jesus.

The life of discipleship is not the hero-worship we would pay to a good master, but obedience to the Son of God.

You are not Christ's disciple, in the sense of following him, if this is not your way of life: rejected and slain daily!

The health, long-term mission, and viability of the church are not going to be determined by those who gather on Sunday morning. The future of the church will be determined by the depth of its disciples.