Browse 463 quotes about Discipleship.
“Advice to young Samuel Gompers that might apply in many other areas: "Learn from socialism, but don't join it.”
Source: The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
“When Jesus said I am the way, he wasn't just saying the way to get forgiveness of sins. He says I am the way- the way I lived is the way you should live. He is the narrow way and He is inviting you and me to walk as He walked. His life was the perfect hallmark of selflessness.”
“If you knew how the journey was going to end, you could afford to be patient along the path.”
Source: Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence
“We are afraid of religion because it interprets rather than observance. Religion does not confirm that there are hungry people in the world; it interprets the hungry to be our brethren whom we allowed to starve.”
“Those who aren't following Jesus aren't his followers. It's that simple. Followers follow, and those who don't follow aren't followers. To follow Jesus means to follow Jesus into a society where justice rules, where love shapes everything. To follow Jesus means to take up his dream and work for it.”
Source: One.Life: Jesus Calls, We Follow
“Discipleship is not about making Christians fit for eternal life. We must see discipleship as equipping people to accomplish their Genesis Commission mandate. Discipleship is about equipping people to be God’s representatives and stewards in this life as we advance the Kingdom of God.”
Source: The Way to Discipleship: Thinking Well About the Kingdom of God
“The cross is not just where Jesus died, it’s where every excuse for a lukewarm life was put to death. To follow Him is to burn for Him.”
Source: Where the Light Breaks Through
“The faith we Christians proclaim needs to be not a clever system but the possibility of dependable relationship. We need to point to the God who does not let go, to the Christ who does not run away. And (here's the rub) we ourselves need to be dependable people... by our faithfulness to the lost, the suffering, and marginal, we begin to show what it is to have faith in the one who doesn't let go.”
Source: Meeting God in Mark: Reflections for the Season of Lent
“Learning is the heart of discipleship. You can't just take up your cross daily. You need to take up the Bible every day.”
Source: A Trip around the Sun: Turning Your Everyday Life into the Adventure of a Lifetime
“Humility is the earmark of God's genuine servant.”
Source: To Live Is Christ: Joining Paul's Journey of Faith
“Dinner is a cacophonous exercise of holy sanctification.”
“People HAVE used me. But it don't matter I don't let it change me. – Mohammed Ali”
Source: Approaching Ali: A Reclamation in Three Acts
“My prophetic task would be twofold: to stand up to him, and to stand by him. To awaken his conscience, and to salve the pain this would cause him.”
Source: Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
“We are to be generous not just in the results of our work, but also IN our work.”
Source: What's Best Next: How the Gospel Transforms the Way You Get Things Done
“each year, she finds her friendships less volatile and easier, because she increasingly succeeds at looking past their flaws and disappointments and homing in on their pleasures and on what set them in motion to begin with. And she wonders why she didn’t do that sooner, why she gave in to so much fury and sorrow when she could have just let those emotions go.”
“If our counseling is truly Christ-centered, then the topic of forgiveness will inevitably come up in the journey toward growth and change.”
Source: Christ-Centered Biblical Counseling: Changing Lives with God's Changeless Truth
“2 Timothy 3:16 says the speaker, instructs us, to draw from the Word of God for doctrine – what is right. He instructs us to draw from the Bible for reproof – pointing out what is wrong – as well as correction that will tell people how to get right. Last, the Word also gives us instruction in how to stay right.”
“If a church is good at making disciples it will be good at making leaders because in the end, a good spiritual formation plan will lead to an accelerated spiritual multiplication.”
Source: Next Steps For Leading a Missional Church
“It’s not what we know that will change the world; it’s how we love others and share the gospel (good news) that will ultimately win back the effectiveness of missional outreach.”
Source: Ordinary Radicals: A Return to Christ-Centered Discipleship
“When you are a disciple of God, he/she will always be with you and will find you regardless of where you are.”
“It is ill to offer God one duty stained with the blood of another.”
Source: Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version
“Life has a peculiar feel when you look back on it that it doesn't have when you're actually living it. It's as though the whole thing were designed to be understood in hindsight, as though you'll never know the meaning of your experiences until you've had enough of them to provide reference.”
Source: A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life
“Boethius moved from considering history from the actor's point of view to a "timeless" eternal view. From the divine perspective, nothing is ever utterly lost, because all of life is possessed by God in the eternal now. Though time was gnawing away at Boethius and stealing all he valued, God was beyond time and loss. Gaining this philosophical vantage allowed the last Roman to become one of the first men of the Middle Ages.”
“Jesus-shaped spirituality hears Jesus say "believe and repent," but the call that resonates most closely in the heart of a disciple is "follow me." The command to follow requires that we take a daily journey in the company of other students. It demands that we be lifelong learners and that we commit to constant growth in spiritual maturity. Discipleship is a call to me, but it is a journey of "we.”
Source: Mere Churchianity: Finding Your Way Back to Jesus-Shaped Spirituality
“We have created youth ministry that confuses extroversion with faithfulness. We have effectively communicated to young people that sincerely following Jesus is synonymous with being 'fired up' for Jesus, with being excited for Jesus, as if discipleship were synonymous with fostering an exuberant, perky, cheerful, hurray-for-Jesus disposition like what we might find in the glee club or at a pep rally.”
Source: You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit | Examining How Culture Shapes Us | Deepening Discipleship through Christian Practices
“I’d wager that our problem is not a theology problem, though plenty of that exists. Further, our problem isn’t that we don’t have enough evangelism, church planting, or missional outreach initiatives. Our problem, at its core, is an identity problem. We have self-proclaimed Christians who lack clarity on what it means to be in Christ and for Christ to be in them. Worse yet, many lack the understanding of who Christ has invited them to become through the cross, resurrection, and the transformative power of His Spirit. There is an unhealthy fixation on what God must want us to do rather than on who God wants us to become.”
Source: The Invitation: Discover Kingdom Identity and Purpose
“The beauty of evidence-based discipleship is that it allows us to measure progress and make informed decisions about how best to invest our time, energy, and resources.”
Source: The Art and Science of Discipleship: Evidence-Based Strategies to Empowering Leaders for Sustainable Ministry
“Evidence-based discipleship helps us to avoid the pitfalls of guesswork and intuition and to instead make informed decisions based on what we know works.”
Source: The Art and Science of Discipleship: Evidence-Based Strategies to Empowering Leaders for Sustainable Ministry
“Managing relationships (with start ups) is more like teaching.”
Source: What Would Google Do?: Reverse Engineering Business Strategies for Survival and Success in the Internet Era
“Discipleship is not a program we launch, but a lifestyle we embrace.”
“According to Jesus examples discipleship is not a program we launch. It is a lifestyle we embrace.”
Source: Ordinary Radicals: A Return to Christ-Centered Discipleship
“We have taken the holistic message preached in the Old Testament and New Testaments and reduced our message to the entry point into the Kingdom.”
Source: An Introduction to the Old Testament Template: Rediscovering God's Principles for Discipling Nations
“A holy person makes you see things in yourself and around you that you had not seen before; that is to say, enlarges the world rather than shrinking it. ...Holiness [is] not an extra special kind of goodness... [or] competing levels of how good you are. It's ...about being involved in the world. A holy person is somebody who is not afraid to be at the tough points in the centre of what it's like to be a human being... this boils down to something extremely simple and extremely difficult, which is that holy people, however much they may enjoy being themselves, are not obsessively interested in themselves. They allow you to see not them, but the world around them. They allow you to see not them, but God. You come away from them feeling not, "Oh, what a wonderful person," but "What a wonderful world," "What a wonderful God," or even, with surprise, "What a wonderful person I am too.”
Source: Being Disciples: Essentials of the Christian Life
“Almost anything at all can be transmuted into a labyrinth.”
Source: The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
“What God did for Jesus in standing up for Him, standing behind Him in life and in death, and in standing in communion and solidarity with Him, the Father also does for us, here and now, in our lives.”
Source: And Morning Came: Scriptures of the Resurrection
“The only way to be productive is to realize we don't HAVE TO be productive. Our goal is to PLEASE God, not APPEASE God.”
Source: What's Best Next: How the Gospel Transforms the Way You Get Things Done
“Reproving others is a thankless office and an unwelcome work for the most part; men take reproofs for reproaches, yet since God has laid it on good men as their duty to rebuke and not suffer sin to lie upon their brother, they dare not omit it.”
Source: The Sinfulness of Sin
“The most effective evidence-based discipleship happens when we combine the wisdom of God's Word with the insights of research and practice.”
Source: The Art and Science of Discipleship: Evidence-Based Strategies to Empowering Leaders for Sustainable Ministry
“Evidence-based discipleship allows us to be both innovative and grounded, constantly seeking new ways to help people grow while remaining faithful to the timeless principles of God's Word.”
Source: The Art and Science of Discipleship: Evidence-Based Strategies to Empowering Leaders for Sustainable Ministry
“The goal of evidence-based discipleship is not just to create disciples, but to create disciple-makers who can pass on the knowledge, skills, and wisdom they have gained to others.”
Source: The Art and Science of Discipleship: Evidence-Based Strategies to Empowering Leaders for Sustainable Ministry
“Shallow are the souls that have forgotten how to shudder. Leon Cass”
Source: The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
“Everything in Scripture is either preparation for the Gospel, presentation of the Gospel, or participation in the Gospel.”
“This is why I absolutely love this passage from Jesus because he takes the pressure off needing to be everything to everyone.”
Source: Reviving Fatherhood: Guiding Every Dad from First Steps to Lasting Legacy
“So often, it's others around us who can see where God wants to grow us even before we see it ourselves.”
Source: Christ-Centered Biblical Counseling: Changing Lives with God's Changeless Truth
“We would like a church that again asserts that God, not nations, rules the world, that the boundaries of God's kingdom transcend those of Caesar, and that the main political task of the church is the formation of people who see clearly the cost of discipleship and are willing to pay the price.”
Source: Resident Aliens: Life in the Christian Colony
“If colleges are going to justify themselves, they are going to have to thrive at those things that require physical proximity. That includes moral and spiritual development. Very few of us cultivate our souls as hermits. We do it through small groups and relationships and in social contexts.”
“Unless a person can give reasons, there is, literally, no reason why anyone else should take that person seriously. But without reasons, all we are left with is emotional blackmail. We sometimes call it 'moral blackmail,' but it has nothing to do with morals, only with the implied juvenile threat of having a tantrum unless everyone else gives in.”
“Why do so many today want to wander off to South Africa or Kenya or India or Russia or Honduras or Costa Rica or Peru to help with justice issues but not spend the same effort in their own neighborhood or community or state? Why do young suburbanites, say in Chicago, want to go to Kentucky or Tennessee to help people but not want to spend that same time to go to the inner city in their own area to help with justice issues? I asked this question to a mature student in my office one day, and he thought he had a partial explanation: 'Because my generation is searching for experiences, and the more exotic and extreme the better. Going down the street to help at a food shelter is good and it is just and some of us are doing that, but it's not an experience. We want experiences.”
“My little girl, I would face a dozen storms far worse than this to keep your soul as stainless as snow; for it is the small temptations which undermine integrity, unless we watch and pray, and never think them too trivial to be resisted.”
Source: Rose in Bloom: A Sequel to Eight Cousins
“Every good man resists others in those points in which he resists himself.”
Source: City of God