By Tom Cheshire and Tom Gensler
- You can’t give away what you don’t possess.
- If you were in a room of people and asked them about discipleship, almost everyone of them would refer to a person that helped them in their life.
- Preaching is essential, but your preaching is not discipleship.
- Discipleship is 2 Timothy 2:2 in action.
- Discipleship is the process of spiritual growth.
- Jesus was not just telling disciples to be like Him, He was showing them how to live God-centered lives.
- Discipleship is one individual investing in one or more other individuals on a consistent basis.
- Which results more in your children listening — what you tell them to do or what they see you do? And this is what discipleship is about as well.
- You can and should be a disciple, as well as a disciple maker.
- You need to know who you are, but you also need to know Who’s you are.
- If you want others to follow your example, you must have been discipled and be discipling others.
- Discipleship is not about perfection, but about progress.
- Luke 6:12–13 teaches that before Jesus chose the disciples, He spent time in prayer.
- Jesus always spoke to His Father. We would be wise to realize we cannot do anything on our own, we need God’s help.
- Discipleship is more caught than taught. Do not overcomplicate discipleship; recognize how Jesus walked and spent time investing in others.
- Much of what you need to do with those you are discipling is to love them.
- In Luke 8, we see only 25% of the seed sown bears fruit. We should not be surprised that not everyone we disciple will bear fruit, but we still do our duty.
- The growth of an individual is not like a mushroom that shoots up quickly, rather like an oak that grows over a long period of time.
- Discipleship is relational, it is life-on-life.