Quotes about Discipleship

You simply cannot be a disciple without being a missionary—a sent one. For way too long discipleship has been limited to issues relating to our own personal morality and worked out in the context of the four walls of the church with its privatized religion.

Discipleship is all about adherence to Christ.

We must teach the new disciples to also do what Jesus commanded the twelve and the seventy to do when they were commissioned. Discipleship in the first century was not merely learning the teachings of the master discipler, but also learning to model their lives on his life, believing like he did, behaving like he did, and doing what he did.

we are to teach the disciples to obey (do) everything Jesus commanded the twelve disciples to do. This is discipleship; not just studying the Bible,

I basically forgot that God called me to make disciples, not just converts.

Christians are made, not born.

Christ called as his Apostles only men. He did this in a totally free and sovereign way.

The emphasis to-day is being put on the fact that we have to save men; we have not. We have to exalt the Saviour Who saves men, and then make disciples in His Name.

Judas Iscariot was not a greatly wicked person, just a common money-lover, and like most money-lovers, he did not understand Christ.

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.

The disciples of a patient Saviour should be patient themselves.

At the back of it there lies the central citadel of obstinacy: I will not give up my right to myself--the thing God intends you to give up if ever you are going to be a disciple of Jesus Christ.