Karen Kinnaman
Pamela C. Babcock I point people to the Two Great Commandments to “‘love the Lord your God with all your heart and with
all your soul and with all your mind’ ... and the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself’” (Matthew 22). A life dedicated
to living this out will be characterized by humility, transformation and a love for Scripture and its ability to shape and change
us into more Christlike followers.”
Roberta Mosier-Peterson
Jesus is learning to do the things He does, in the way that He does them and is becoming the kind of person that He is. When
we make disciples, we lead them into a life that looks like Jesus’ life but in the very ordinary stuff of life.
Jaymes Lackey From the Great Commission: Learning to obey everything Jesus commanded empowered by the means of
grace.
Scott Ehle
of discipleship. Come to Jesus, follow Jesus, Jesus will transform us, then He sends us to go bring people to Him.
Travis McCool What I hear you asking is less about what a disciple is and more about the process of how to facilitate the
process of developing one. If I heard you correctly, making a disciple is costly. It requires deep and transparent commitment
to the one we are discipling. Life must be lived with the person under our care, and we must model the traits indicative of one
who follows Jesus in both success and failure.
The process of making a disciple requires us to let people in and to shepherd them as they wrestle with questions and count
a fully developed follower of Jesus will emerge, but it will be at the cost of the one doing the discipleship.
This is where I think our American and Westernized version of Christianity is and has been failing for a long time. If you want
a clear example of how this plays out in real life, call any pastor you want right now. Go ahead, call them. They won’t pick
up. Pastors are so strapped with other preoccupations like board meetings and the business of church, proper discipleship
becomes an afterthought.
OK, this is just me, but making a disciple takes time. You will know you have made one when someone has
become dependable in Christ. That means they continue to do the things that disciples do when no one is around. They pray,
they produce fruit, they share the Word, the love, the mindset of Christ with everyone they meet. You know someone is a
disciple when they have made deep changes to their life and their attitude and in relationships. You know they are a disciple
when they come upon hard times and honestly depend on the Lord to see them through. You know they are a disciple when
they are bringing others to Christ as they were brought to Christ. This work is best done through relationship. Spending time,
effort, tears and sweat, just like Jesus did. When you invest in another person’s walk with Jesus, that helps to make them a
Frank and Jeannette Meitz A disciple of Jesus is not just a student, but an apprentice, a protégé. We want to be like Jesus,
not just know about Him. Jesus was dependent on the Holy Spirit — as we should be. Thus, He will produce fruit through us
and will help us mature and spiritually reproduce.
pg. 17 — lightandlifemagazine.com
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