*A couple weeks ago I said that today’s church lacks the discipleship of the Biblical church and promised to give a definition of discipleship. Here it is…
I am really passionate about discipleship.
Jesus pronounced His Kingdom on the Earth through discipleship, and we simply cannot come up with better methods than Jesus. So I stick with discipleship.
Discipleship Defined
The word “discipleship,” gets thrown around a lot today, but how many of us know what it means? Some see it as Bible study, others as a relationship, and others just think it is a strange word.
The dictionary defines disciple as “a follower or student of a teacher, leader, or philosophy.” That definition is decent, but we can do better.
When Jesus trained the disciples, his goal was to multiply himself. I don’t mean he wanted to create 12 clones, but rather 12 men who were capable of carrying on and extending his work. Yes they followed him, but once he left Earth they were meant to continue his work in new places and for new generations.
This is discipleship: training and teaching others to fulfill and extend a mission in ways that could not be done by yourself alone (for the record, Jesus could have done more by himself, but he chose to limit himself in part to set an example for us).
