Discipleship book review

“Discipleship ranks as God’s top priority.” God looks at this as something so important that he wants us to be willing to follow in his sons footsteps, because Jesus practices discipleship just like we have to. If we don’t have discipline in our lives to want to follow after God and be a disciple of Christ then our lives don’t really amount to us and aren’t very structured at all. I really liked when the author talked about how “there is no biblical evidence for a separation of Christian from disciple” they work together. If we are followers of Christ we are called to be disciples. God has called us to be disciples and to go out and preach his word to the unbelievers.

Something that the book said that caught my eye was “You might never feel at home in structure, but when you make peace with it, you’ll learn to embrace its value.” When I thought about this for a minute I started to think about Master’s Commission. This is talking about having structure and discipline in our lives and how it’s what we need to have to be a better Christian, and sometimes that can be frustrating and challenging to follow after God with trying to follow a structured plan. In Master’s we have rules and boundaries that we aren’t allowed to cross, sometimes I don’t understand them, but at the end of the day I realize that they are there to help guide me into a better person and more importantly a better Christian. I might be going crazy over some small thing that I have to follow in GMC, but it could be something that down the road God shows me that it was the most important thing for me, because of what he’s going to call me into one day.

Without discipleship in our lives we would be lost as Christians and we wouldn’t be fully following after God if we aren’t willing to go out and do the hard things and be the disciple God called us to be. Being a disciple is a big step in our lives, but once we walk into that pattern in life we can see the greater change in our lives. You can’t have Christianity without discipleship it’s like taking Christ out of Christianity, like it says in the book. One of the verses it used in the book that I really liked to help describe this better was, Luke 6:46-49…which says.. ”Why  do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and do not do what I say? I will show you what he is like who comes to me and hears my words and puts them into practice. He is like a man building a house, who dug down deep and laid the foundation on rock. When a flood came, the torrent struck that house but could not shake it, because it as well built. But the one who hears my words and does not put them into practice is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation. The moment the torrent struck that house, it collapsed and its destruction was complete.” I love how this verse talks about taking what God says into practice and actually going after it and striving for it and if we do that we will be firm in God’s truth and his power.

It talks about in how we’ve started to make disciple-making optional within the church. Which to me is sad, it talked about how every week we go to church and do the same thing as everyone else and sit in the same row and talk to the same people. We aren’t people who are out taking chances to reach the people who really need reached within the church. I think honestly that we as Christians have just become lazy when it comes to reaching out to God’s people sometimes. We’re called to go out and make disciples of all men…I think sometimes we forget or avoid that that’s part of our job description.

“When God calls us, he invites us to die. And ironically, we’ll never be more alive.” It says in the bible that when we are going after God and following him, we are supposed to die to ourselves and strive for more of God in our lives by taking up our cross and following after his calling on our lives. He has a will and a way for us we just have to be able to say yes to following after it and trusting in God. We just have to be able to surrender whole heartedly to him. When we live for him and not things of this world or even ourselves we will see how we’ve never felt more alive in our lives. It’s about sacrifice.

This book taught me a lot about discipleship and it’s probably a book I could go back and read a few more times over because I feel like there is more things that I can find in it that I missed reading the first time. This put me into a new perspective of what discipleship is really. I’m very happy that I saw it in a different view point than what I had thought for so long. (:


I read 85% of the book