The Cost of Discipleship

The principles of discipleship can be found throughout the Bible. One of the ultimate goals of discipleship is to become more Christ like which makes Jesus's life and grace an excellent basis for discipleship. Jesus invested in twelve men, the first Disciples, and entrusted them to continue the process. Peter, James, and John were a part of Christ's inner circle and he fostered and encouraged an exalted spiritual life and growth in these three. Paul was a Pharisee who was murdering Christians and

The Cost of Discipleship: Luke 14:25-35 Discipleship is one of the highest aspirations of many of the different followers and sections of Christianity, but as Luke 14:25-35 shows, it is not something that is handed to each and every follower as it must be earned and truly worked towards in order to be allowed to experience the full effect and ownership of being a disciple. The idea of discipleship is something that is not necessarily tangible as is more of a state of belief rather than something

Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary Writing Assignment 1 A paper submitted to Dr. Rick Garner In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the course Discipleship Ministries DSMN 500 By Hershel L. Kreis, Jr. November 4, 2012 Toano, Virginia INTRODUCTION While there are those who may be uncomfortable with the idea that worship is a goal in making disciples, the goal of Christian education according to Mitchell is to make a disciple who worships Jesus. Mitchell points out

however, there are strong similarities in the content and dialogue used in both Gospel’s. Discipleship is an important message in both Mark’s and Luke’s Gospels. It seems to me that Luke edited Marks’s version of events because Mark’s story didn’t correspond to the message that Luke wanted to emanate about what it means to be a true disciple of Jesus. Both Gospel’s agree on the basics, and that discipleship means following Jesus. But they differ on the details. In Mark disciples often make mistakes

Bonhoeffer's Discipleship During the postmodern time period of theology during which the religious landscape had developed into a multi-centered, experience-oriented social imaginary as expressed by influential philosophers such as Friedrich Hegel and Immanuel Kant, Dietrich Bonhoeffer offered a revolutionary theology that pushed back against these pluralistic notions of religion and Christianity. Unlike Hegel and Kant who saw reason as the way to encounter the world and experience God, Bonhoeffer

parable concerning the seriousness of neglecting to accept the invitation of the Gospel, He then proceeds to teach on discipleship and the seriousness of the call to discipleship and its demands. Nothing must come before one‘s devotion to Christ. Not even family, Father, Mother, Sister, or Brother is to be placed in the reserved position of preeminence for the Lord. Salvation cost Jesus His life, and He was not guilty of any crime that He should die a horrific death, but for the love of His Father

LIBERTY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF DIVINITY Writing Assignment 1 – Christ in Discipleship Submitted to Dr. Gary Waller in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the completion of DSMN 500 – B03 Discipleship Ministries by David J. Miller May 29, 2016 Centrality of Christ in Christian discipleship Christian discipleship is to follow Jesus, to be his disciple, doesn’t mean community involvement and the veneer of tolerance. It means, mainly, first and central, to worship him

Nature of Discipleship and Studying Mark's Gospel St Mark, peter interpreter, is trying to send a message to Christians about what being a disciple involves and what it takes to be a disciple i.e. The cost, The Reward and The dependency. These are all the things I will be pointing out in this essay, (especially the nature of discipleship and what Mark tells and about discipleship. Disciple means learner or student. Followers of Jesus are all his disciples because they

Discipleship Teachers around the time when Jesus lived thought that learning was such that the people who wanted to learn should come to them to be taught. But Jesus felt differently and rather than waiting for people to come to him, he went out to find them and then chose them to be his followers. He called them disciples and this word means one who learns. But Jesus chose his disciples carefully as we are told in Mark 1:16-20 and also in Mark 3:13-19. In the first passage, Jesus appoints his first

Discipleship Teachers around the time when Jesus lived thought that learning was such that the people who wanted to learn should come to them to be taught. But Jesus felt differently and rather than waiting for people to come to him, he went out to find them and then chose them to be his followers. He called them disciples and this word means one who learns. But Jesus chose his disciples carefully as we are told in Mark 1:16-20 and also in Mark 3:13-19. In the first passage, Jesus appoints his first