Nature of Discipleship and Studying Mark's Gospel

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Nature of Discipleship and Studying Mark's Gospel

St Mark, peter interpreter, is trying to send a message to Christians

about what being a disciple involves and what it takes to be a

disciple i.e. The cost, The Reward and The dependency. These are all

the things I will be pointing out in this essay, (especially the

nature of discipleship and what Mark tells and about discipleship.

Disciple means learner or student. Followers of Jesus are all his

disciples because they are learning from his teachings, Mk10v13-14

"the disciples scolded the people. When Jesus noticed this he was

angry and he said to his disciples, let the children come to me." This

is an example of a disciple learning from his master. In the gospel

the disciples were the twelve who traveled and worked with Jesus. In

Jesus' time a disciple would live and travel with his teacher.

"Peter's Declaration about Jesus." Mk8v27 "then Jesus and his disciple

went away to the villages", Jesus and his disciples are traveling

together, accompanying each other, just like john the Baptist and the

Pharisees who also had disciples. Mk2v18 "on one occasions the

followers of john the Baptist and the Pharisees".

Many people think that "Apostles" and "Disciples" mean the same thing,

but they don't because an apostle means "messenger, one sent out" "I

will also send you out to preach"Mk3v14. They are sent out to tell

sinners and gentiles to believe the good news. They are sending out a

message about the Kingdom of God and the Good News. Another example of

a messenger is Elijah who was a messenger for the Messiah.

Jesus never once used "Messiah" in the Mark's gospel, because that

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...nal life and many more brothers. The word

disciple is from Latin "discipulus". A disciple must be prepared to

suffer, be rejected and go to prison. Jesus taught us the rewards

received by believers, Mk10v1-12 the disciples have the privilege of

becoming a child of God, depending on god and not on materials by

doing this they will receive the gift of eternal life. The true nature

of discipleship is having faith in God, being his friend; companion

and follower also obey the commandment. To get the reward first you

have to be prepare to receive the cost with believe and total faith in

God. Mark is using the disciple's mistakes as a learning tool to show

the Christians in Rome what to do, because they are his main audience

these are the people he is writing for and showing them what a

disciple does and what it consists of.

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