-What is discipleship?
Matthew
10:42
The word 'disciple' in the
original means 'a pupil', a 'learner'. Learn what?.John
8:31 "Then said Emmanuel to those of the tribe
of Judah which believed on him, If you continue in my word, then
are you my disciples.indeed."
Luke
8:19-21 "Then came to him his mother and his brethren and could not
come at him for the press. And it was told him by certain which said, Your
mother and your brethren stand without, desiring to see you. And he answered
and said unto them, My mother and my brethren are these which hear the
word of God and do it." John 13:35.
"By this shall all men know that you are my disciples, if you have love
one to another.".A
disciple therefore is a learner of love.
Disciples practice
bearing fruit:.John
15:8 "Herein is my Father glorified, that you bear much fruit, because
in this.(or,
because by doing this).you
are my disciples."
Disciples are those in alignment
with God.
If we too
are learners of love, we then are disciples:.John
12:26. Like those who had
to learn to be prophets in the Old Testament, we too, in this New Testament
era, need to learn what
Emmanuel taught his disciples about believing.
-My pastor gets perturbed
with me asking questions
and more questions..1Peter
3:15
-Do
we more fully enter the presence of God when we pray and study and
meditate?.Jude
1:24