How Teaching About Disciples Might Affect the Life of a Christian Today

How Teaching About Disciples Might Affect the Life of a Christian Today

The teaching of discipleship affects the life of Christians today by a

number of things, a parent having a child, people in the groups that

help the poor people; mother Teresa and modern day. The themes that

are required are:

Ø Commitment

Ø Sacrifice

Ø Service

Ø Suffering

A parent needs to do all these things or has done them already as

having a child requires these, just like we need these to do all them

things to be a disciple of Jesus. Commitment plays a major role as a

parent has to be totally committed to a child, to look after it, to

spend time with it, to love it. Without commitment it then was wrong

and selfish to bring a child into this world. It requires total

commitment.

Mother Teresa showed total commitment by the way she went out into the

poor countries and stayed with the people to care for them to help

them, through what ever difficultly she faced. That's why she is

remembered in everyone's heart, she was totally committed to the

people and never left them for the worst. This tells us as Christians

today that we must show commitment to people and help them throughout

the difficulties never leave when the going gets tuff, just as others

have done for us.

All parents have to sacrifice things for us .i.e. There free time,

clothe and items they may need. But parents sacrifice all there time

for their child so they have what they need.

Mother Teresa gave up everything, her riches, her healthy to help

others in the poor countries this makes her a true discipleship of

God.

What Christians today learn from this is that we must sacrifice

things, sometime big things to help others in need and in doing so you

are doing what is required to be a disciple of God.

A parent also provides service to their child as it's the parent that