It may be easier to define what discipleship is not than what it is. It is not working with a person to refine their doctrine, correct thinking, or bible knowledge. It is not getting someone to memorize scripture. It is not getting someone to go to or serve in the church. It is not working with someone to be vulnerable, open, and honest in a small group. It is not about discussing spiritual issues in depth. It is not about holding each other accountable. If there is any validity to any of this, then discipleship is not what goes under the name of discipleship most of the time.
Anything else it is not? Why is it not these things? They all seem good.
What is it then? Good place to start. What did Jesus say it was in Matthew 28?
I may be wrong, but again, if I knew where I was wrong I was I would stop it.
Gotta go for now. Think about it. Comment. More later
3 comments:
it says to "go and make disciples of all nations"...and as far as what it is to disciple some one i got only that you were suppose to baptize them and "teach them to obey everything I have commanded"...i only read it once...so i probably missed something...but that is what i got right off...now it seems to me that that kind of clashes with what you think disciplship isnt...sure most of them dont seem to apply directly to the whole "teach them to obey what i have commanded you" deal...but in some form or another it seems like those "nots" seem to be pretty close with what i got from breifly reading Matthew 28...obviously i have missed something though...if you think otherwise...
[conversation last night about this issue]
C: Aren't you throwing the baby out with the bathwater? Those things may not be discipleship, but can't they be used in discipleship?
ME: If everything is discipleship, then nothing is discipleship.
i have to be honest with you...that makes very little sense...the only reason i kind of get what your saying is cuase of the whole saying "if everyone is special then no one is special"...but still...not everything is discipleship...there are key things that do (i think) make up a foundation for a discipleship...the things you mentioned...but those things are only a foundation...something that is constant and always there to fall back on if something goes wrong...but from that foundation i think is when real discipleship begins...
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