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  • Jesus calls us to his rest, and meekness is His method. The meek man cares not at all who is greater than he, for he has long ago decided that the esteem of the world is not worth the effort.

    Jesus   Men   Long Ago  
  • God wants to help us to eventually turn all of our weaknesses into strengths,1 but He knows that this is a long-term goal. He wants us to become perfect,2 and if we stay on the path of discipleship, one day we will. It’s OK that you’re not quite there yet. Keep working on it, but stop punishing yourself.

    Long   Perfect   Goal  
  • In every Magical, or similar system, it is invariably the first condition which the Aspirant must fulfill: he must once and for all and for ever put his family outside his magical circle.Even the Gospels insist clearly and weightily on this.Christ himself (i.e. whoever is meant by this name in this passage) callously disowns his mother and his brethren (Luke VIII, 19). And he repeatedly makes discipleship contingent on the total renunciation of all family ties. He would not even allow a man to attend his father's funeral!Is the magical tradition less rigid?Not on your life!

    Mother   Father   Men  
  • You can impress from a distance, but you can only impact up close.

    Distance   Epic   Impact  
  • In Bright Shadow: C.S. Lewis on the Imagination for Theology and Discipleship

  • Salvation is free, but discipleship costs everything we have

    Billy Graham (1966). “The Quotable Billy Graham”
  • Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating.

    Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.129, SCM Press
  • It's a sin to bore people with the Bible.

    Epic   People   Sin  
  • Promptings for us to do good come from the Holy Ghost. These promptings nudge us further along the straight and narrow path of discipleship. The natural man doesn't automatically think of doing good. It isn't natural. How many people worry about the car behind them or the person below them? The natural man just doesn't do it. For us, however, these promptings enlarge our awareness of other people's needs and then prod us to act accordingly.

    Men   Thinking   People  
  • Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.

    Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.129, SCM Press
  • Jesus never discipled one-on-one.

  • Discipleship is rooted in a deep belief in the universal reign of God through Christ. To be a disciple is to acknowledge that reign and to embrace the lifelong journey of submitting more and more of every aspect of your life to His good, just, and peaceable reign, as well as alerting others to God's kingship by both word and deed.

    Journey   Deeds   Reign  
  • Christian discipleship does not involve the abandonment of any innocent enjoyment. Any diversion or amusement which we can use so as to receive pleasure and enjoyment to ourselves, and do no harm to others, we are perfectly free to use.

  • The kingdom of heaven is worth infinitely more than the cost of discipleship, and those who know where the treasure lies joyfully abandon everything else to secure it.

    Lying   Heaven   Cost  
  • Judgement is the forbidden objectivization of the other person which destroys single-minded love. I am not forbidden to have my own thoughts about the other person, to realize his shortcomings, but only to the extent that it offers to me an occasion for forgiveness and unconditional love, as Jesus proves to me.

    Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.185, Simon and Schuster
  • We are not meant to die merely in order to be dead. God could not want that for the creatures to whom He has given the breath of life. We die in order to live.

    Inspiring   Order   Want  
    Elisabeth Elliot, Joshua Harris (2002). “Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control”, p.73, Revell
  • What you present as the gospel will determine what you present as discipleship. If you present as the gospel what is essentially a theory of the atonement, and you say, If you accept this theory of the atonement, your sins are forgiven, and when you die you will be received into heaven, there is no basis for discipleship.

    Heaven   Sin   Atonement  
  • Christian education is a bomb with a long fuse - it takes a while to go off.

    Christian   Epic   Long  
  • If you cannot be accused of exclusivity, you are not discipling.

  • Love is the measure of our faith, the inspiration for our obedience, and the true altitude of our discipleship.

  • If you have a group of people come together around a vision for real discipleship, people who are committed to grow, committed to change, committed to learn, then a spiritual assessment tool can work.

  • Again and again the Sermon on the Mount calls and challenges us to a life of radical discipleship. Note: when Jesus says 'Blessed are the . . . . merciful, peacmakers', and so on, he doesn't just mean that they themselves are blessed. He means that the blessing of God's kingdom works precisely through those people into the wider world. That is how God's kingdom comes. That's one thing to hear afresh.

    Jesus   Blessed   Mean  
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  • Our Lord never lays down the conditions of discipleship as the conditions of salvation.

    Oswald Chambers (2015). “Called of God: Extracts from My Utmost for His Highest on the Missionary Call”, p.15, Discovery House
  • It is possible to know all about doctrine and yet not know Jesus. The soul is in danger when knowledge of doctrine outsteps intimate touch with Jesus. ....Have I a personal history with Jesus Christ? The one sign of discipleship is intimate connection with Him, a knowledge of Jesus Christ nothing can shake.

    Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.225, Discovery House
  • Let us be mindful of the foundational precepts our Heavenly Father has given to His children that will establish the basis of a rich and fruitful mortal life with promises of eternal happiness…. Brothers and sisters, diligently doing the things that matter most will lead us to the Savior of the world…. Let us make the changes necessary to refocus our lives on the sublime beauty of the simple, humble path of Christian discipleship—the path that leads always toward a life of meaning, gladness, and peace.

  • Christianity without the living Christ is inevitably Christianity without discipleship, and Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.

    Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.17, SCM Press
  • Fortunately, God made all varieties of people with a wide variety of interests and abilities. He has called people of every race and color who have been hurt by life in every manner imaginable. Even the scars of past abuse and injury can be the means of bringing healing to another. What wonderful opportunities to make disciples!

    Leadership   Hurt   Mean  
    Charles R. Swindoll (2008). “Walk with Jesus: A Journey to the Cross and Beyond”, p.57, Thomas Nelson Inc
  • Love is the beginning, the middle, and the end of the pathway of discipleship. It comforts, counsels, cures, and consoles. It leads us through valleys of darkness and through the veil of death. In the end love leads us to the glory and grandeur of eternal life.

  • If Christ has been given us, if we are called to his discipleship we are given all things, literally _all_ things. He will see to it that they are added unto us. If we follow Jesus and look only to His righteousness, we are in his hands and under the protection of Him and His Father. And if we are in communion with the Father, nought can harm us. God will help us in the hour of need, and He knows our needs.

    Jesus   Father   Hands  
  • Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. We are fighting today for costly grace.

    Fighting   Grace   Enemy  
    Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.3, SCM Press
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