The Effects of Teaching About Discipleship on Christians Today

The Effects of Teaching About Discipleship on Christians Today

Discipleship has affected both the people in Jesus' time and

Christians to day. In this piece of work I will be looking at how

discipleship has affected Christians today. Discipleship consists of a

lot of things many of which are to follow Jesus also believe in him,

Mk10v46-52 "Jesus son of David take pity on me" Bartimeaus believed in

Jesus because he recognised him as the messiah and with this his faith

made him better "he followed Jesus on the road" after Jesus has healed

him he followed him and became on of his followers. Another example of

discipleship is to give up everything, Mk1v17 "at once they left their

nets and went with him" they gave up all they had and didn't think

twice and left as soon as they heard their calling. When Jesus was

teaching about discipleship he asked of us these things "forget self,

carry his cross and follow me" Mk8v34 and you have to be totally

dependent on God and not on materials Mk10v17-31 "go and sell all you

have and give your money to the poor" by doing this you will get many

riches, many more brothers and sisters in heaven Mk10v29.

My image of a disciple would be classed as a stereotypical one; of a

priest or nun until now I do understand that any person can be a

disciple. When I think of discipleship I always think of religion, and

therefore I believe that to do good works strong faith is needed in a

disciple. We have all heard of the famous disciples who have done

brilliant works throughout the world like Dr. Martin Luther King the

black civil rights activist, Sean Devereux who gave everything up to

help kids in Africa and died doing what he loved, and people who I

researched myself are Maximillian Kolbe who, in a Nazi concentration

camp sacrificed his life for a married man with a family and Mother

Teresa who knew what her calling was and went after it to help the