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Discipleship 101 - Growing Strong in God's Family

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What is Discipleship?

The word ‘discipleship’ is not found in the dictionary. Ever tried typing it and gotten that spell checker dotted red line under the word as the dictionary does not recognize it? But it is a real word synonymous with the Christian community. And Jesus told us what that word means.

A Disciple is a follower of Jesus. Discipleship is learning to live out the principles of his life. And then pass that baton by teaching others to be the same. It is a process quite like a mentorship program. Where a person trained as a ‘discipler’ like Jesus was, takes a person(s) under their wings and trains them into becoming a discipler as well. Like the disciples of Jesus Christ did. A discipler is not to mold someone into becoming like them but becoming more like Jesus himself. Discipleship not only teaches you to make more disciples, just as important, it also teaches you to understand and live on your Christian faith.

Who needs discipleship?

The short answer to that is, everyone who gets saved. Discipleship is a mandated process in every Christian’s life. Its pre-requisite is to become saved through Jesus Christ, meaning, completing the process of accepting Jesus Christ into your life and becoming a part of the family of God.

Why discipleship?

Because of what you’ve become the moment you got saved. You became a baby. A spiritual baby. Because you have just been born again and the Apostle Paul says you are now a new baby that needs spiritual milk to thrive and to grow before you can eat solid spiritual food. Discipleship provides this spiritual milk. A spiritual baby is how everyone enters into the Kingdom of God. A spiritual baby that needs to grow into a spiritual adult. Jesus speaks of this when some people approached him with their children and the disciples were turning the children away. Jesus told the disciples

 
When a person gets saved, the person of their spirit that was always dead to God because of the fall of Adam, now comes alive. This is what is meant to be “born again”. You are now born again spiritually as a baby, even though you are an adult as a human being. The same process it took you to grow from a human baby to a human adult is required for your spiritual life. And Christianity becomes a whole new world, a spiritual world, that you are born into and you must learn to live spiritually there as well. Much like a human baby having human parents, as a spiritual baby your parent is spiritual; God, who is your father. But now you have gained a spiritual family with all the saved people on the earth who are your siblings, and your discipler who is already a mature person spiritually will become your mentor or more like the role of a nanny, or a nursemaid, who is responsible to see to your growth by administering to you the milk you will need to grow. In other words, as a saved person, you are now living a double life. A spiritual and a physical one. And BOTH lives NEEDS TO GROW.
 

 

If you do not grow in your spiritual life like you do in your human life, spiritually you would become like an underdeveloped adult as time goes by. Ever met someone you thought was immature in their thinking, their speech, or in the things they do, even though they were an adult? This is what an immature Christian looks like. Therefore, it is possible to have someone being saved for years, yet they are immature spiritually, because they missed the important step of their spiritual development. The Discipleship process.