Quotes about Discipleship

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.

Too often we attempt to teach people to swim in a classroom." If you have ever taken swimming lessons, you immediately get the importance of getting in the water and practicing under the watchful eye of a swimming rabbi. Jesus invited the original twelve to go swimming with Him.

Community is essential when it comes to successfully living out the Christian walk in a day-to-day context. So the math is simple: More community = More disciples Understanding the nature of groups helps you.

Rooting out bad habits is not enough. If we merely attack what is wrong, we create a vacuum that will inevitably be filled by some new behavior or addiction that does not shape our worldview according to the gospel. The solution, I believe, is discipleship, the process of becoming more like Christ.