What Is Discipleship?
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Overview
Using 10 basic building blocks, Stephen Smallman gives us a framework for local congregations to design and implement a theologically sound strategy for disciple-making.
Top Highlights
“Michael Horton states it this way: ‘Precisely [because] the Good News [is] of a completed, sufficient, and perfect work of God in Christ accomplished for me and outside of me in history, the gospel is ‘the power of God unto salvation’ not only at the beginning but throughout the Christian life. In fact, our sanctification is simply a lifelong process of letting that Good News sink in and responding appropriately: becoming the people whom God says that we already are in Christ.’17 In other words, those who have come to believe the gospel don’t move on from the gospel; they need to learn how to go deeper into the gospel.” (Page 17)
“Discipleship is more than teaching; it has the sense of following the teacher both as a learner and as an adherent” (Page 7)
“grammatically there is only one command—to make disciples” (Page 6)
“start to think in terms of two phases of making disciples rather than distinct tasks of evangelism and discipleship” (Page 15)
“The image of the trellis and the vine is quite striking. The authors point out that for a church, a ‘trellis’ (committees, organization, buildings, and other physical infrastructure) is important only as it serves as a stable platform for the vine to grow on. Growth of the vine is making disciples—‘to see people converted, changed and grow to maturity in the gospel.” (Page 8)
- Title: What Is Discipleship?
- Author: Stephen E. Smallman
- Series: Basics of the Faith
- Publisher: P&R
- Print Publication Date: 2011
- Logos Release Date: 2014
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Discipling (Christianity)
- ISBNs: 9781596382350, 159638235X
- Resource ID: LLS:WHTSDSCPLSHP
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T03:47:50Z
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