Discipleship Christian

The word discipleship cannot be found in the Bible. This word is unclear in English. It will mean discipleship with the sense of a personal pattern of following Christ , trusting him and realizing from him. That’s discipleship. It will mean that. Or this will mean an activity of helping other people be disciples in a sense of learning and growing from him. “People needed to become Christians, people needed to be taught about how to feel and think and act as one real Christian. That is being a disciple.”      The next meaning is to help other people. It has a verb in the Greek New Testament: to make disciples. It will mean preaching the gospel so people will be converted to Jesus and became Christians and, therefore, disciples. An example in Acts 14:21 that states, “When they had spoken of the gospel to a city and created many disciples, they will go back to Iconium and Lystra.” So that “will make disciples” is a Greek word there, that means “to have them transformed ...

Another important document has been approved at a General Assembly, the policy statement of a Worldwide Ministries Division that was entitled as “Do Missions in Partnership.” The partnership is intrinsic to the Trinitarian nature of God and the incarnation of mission. Everybody should take part in God’s task in partnership with the Lord , with the agencies and the partner churches from around the world and with our hurting world. Shifting beyond the ingrained paternalistic outline to equal 2-way missions and the authentic partnership is the challenge before us. Six essential mission attitudes on pathway to partnership of basic discipleship: 1. Humility - the mission now should start with the recognition, the repentance and the abandonment of the attitudes of pride, condescension, superiority and arrogance. Humility entailed the openness to take, to learn from & to be corrected by others. 2. Compassion - when we give money, feed the hungry, build churches, preach the gospel an...

In order to own that discipleship heart , we must make sure that we are working towards growing it every day. Below are the lists that will help you grow, then, daily applied it. 1) Deepen your connection with God We can’t be the disciple of our father in heaven when we don’t grow deeper in Jesus Christ and we don’t have that personal connection with Him. When we’re looking at His 12 disciples, we can see that each one of them had a personal and an intimate relationship with Him. With the tales of Jesus’ living on earth that had been contained within the gospel, we see His connections with His disciples. Jesus taught them, was intended by them, pay attention to their troubles, they are working together as one, then, gave them the authority to preach His word. We cannot get from this life through using our personal strength, so we should make sure that we struggle everyday to have a connection with Christ to rely alone on His strength. You may work towards deepening the connection you h...