Christian Discipleship and Understanding Early Christian Behavior

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a. The Fourth Gospel has the theme of discipleship featuring

prominently throughout it. There are twelve of Jesus' disciples

mentioned but there are many disciples as long as you have the

required qualities. These qualities include faithfulness, loyalty,

trust, open to having change in their life, and the desire to learn

amongst many other things.

One idea found in the Fourth Gospel regarding Christian discipleship

is the idea that they are born from above. They do not belong to this

world and they are aliens. The world will hate them because of this

and they are different form everyone else. No one can receive God

unless they are reborn from above. This is something that Nicodemus

does not understand and shows himself not to a true disciple. Being a

follower of Jesus means that you are no longer from this world and you

no longer belong. Jesus showed how he was born from above with the

virgin birth. It portrayed that he is not from this world but sent

from above. John 1:11 shows this, 'he came to that which was his own,

but his won did not receive him', he no longer belongs to the world

but is like an alien. A true disciple must have a mutual indwelling

with Jesus, he must live in you and you must live in him. John teaches

us in the Fourth Gospel that a true disciple will understand this and

be reborn form above in order to gain this mutual indwelling with

Jesus that is so important.

The Samaritan woman is an excellent example of John's teaching about

the nature of Christian discipleship because, not only does she do the

extremely important act of bringing p...

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...models

of discipleship. For example as I have mentioned earlier, there were

three specific models of discipleship and how a Christian should

behave in the Fourth Gospel; Nicodemus, the lame man and the blind

man. These models are examples of some but you can not group all

people into just three categories. It is impossible to put a vast

number of people in such groups.

I think the Fourth Gospel is quite a good piece of writing to give us

an understanding of the early Christian behaviour because it gives us

three examples of what most of the people behaved like. It also shows

us the qualities of a good disciple and how people should live their

lives. People can see how to be a good disciple and follow these

suggestions in order to be a good Christian and John also teaches us

about how the early Christians behaved.

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