The Work of Discipleship
A disciple is ‘one who wishes to follow and learn from another’. A
disciple believes in and helps to spread the teachings of another.
Jesus gathered disciples around him to help him with his mission. The
number of disciples he chose, twelve, is significant. Jesus links the
twelve disciples in the New Testament and the twelve tribes of Israel
in the Old Testament. This is the connection between the Old and the
New Covenants
When Jesus called them, they instantly left everything to follow him.
Well, Simon (Peter), Andrew, James and John did anyway. The Rich Young
Man could not take the final leap of faith. He had kept the Ten
Commandments since he was young. All he needed to do was sell all his
belongings, give the money to the poor and follow Jesus. But he was
very rich and did not want have a great enough faith. Jesus told Levi
(Matthew) to follow him and he did. Jesus chose twelve men and they
came to him. They were chosen to share in Jesus’ mission, to bring
others into the community and to continue the mission when Jesus was
gone.
The disciples were given a three-fold mission; to heal the sick, to
drive out demons and to spread the word of Jesus. This would be tough
and would involve sacrifice. In ‘The Mission’, Jesus says:
“Don’t take anything with you on your journey except
a stick – no bread, no beggar’s bag, no money in your pocket.
Wear sandals but don’t carry an extra shirt.”
Mark 6.8-9
But they made these sacrifices because in order to join God’s
community they had to drop everything in their life and follow Jesus.
This is the nature of discipleship and shows the urgency of...
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...takes like everyone else but never
give up.
In ‘The Commission’, Jesus reminds the disciples that they must carry
on his work, continuing to spread the Good News. He told them to:
“Go throughout the whole world and preach the
gospel to the whole human race.
Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved;
whoever does not believe will be condemned.”
Mark 16.15-16
He went on to say believers would be given the power to perform
miracles. He says they will not be harmed by poisons, will be able to
speak in ‘strange tongues’ and will heal the sick. This sums up the
nature of discipleship. They had to make huge sacrifices to join Jesus
on his mission and had to be prepared to suffer and even die. In the
end, even if they had not enough faith sometimes, they had it in the
beginning and in the end.
With a mission to win an Olympic medal, and to tell his story, of the heinous crime he experienced. Demonstrating what one man, set on fire and left to die can do (Hall 601-604). I believe that during the
To be a true disciple of Jesus one must not disown or deny Jesus but
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with you at all times. To become a Christian you must try and be the
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had great faith in Jesus and teaches us that we should do the same. In
The Gospel of Luke centralizes the components of Jesus’ divinity, humanity, and ministry which contribute to the perception of Jesus portrayed by the narrator of Luke. Jesus’ divinity is demonstrated through his healings and miracles throughout the Gospel. His humanity is represented through the infancy narrative and also at the beginning of his Passion in the Garden of Gethsemane. Finally, Jesus’ public ministry serves as the most effective and important element of his life because of the essential teachings that he speaks of that give inside evidence to the formation of the modern day church.
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way of the one who is called. Not wealth, not even family: it is a
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