Discipleship: What do we Mean?

I’ve heard many Chris­tians raise con­cern or oth­er­wise com­plain about the (lack of) dis­ci­ple­ship in the church. What I often find con­fus­ing is the dif­fer­ent mean­ings of the word ‘dis­ci­ple­ship’ that peo­ple use. One exam­ple I heard recently is from a pas­tor who has defined dis­ci­ple­ship so as to include wit­ness­ing and evan­ge­lis­tic out­reaches towards those who have not accepted Jesus. This def­i­n­i­tion holds that a Chris­t­ian can dis­ci­ple a non-Christian in the teach­ings and ways of Jesus. There is an appeal made to the call­ing and col­lec­tion of the dis­ci­ples as an exam­ple of this and the idea seems to either be rejected out­right (as I think it should be) or mildly accepted by those peo­ple I know.

That is what I want to write a lit­tle bit about… Tomorrow.

Related posts:

1. Evan­ge­lis­tic Discipleship