✌🏼 The Myth Of Discipleship

Does It Really Exist?

Dec 13, 2023

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Create an imaginative image of a Loch Ness monster sighting. The setting is the misty and mysterious Loch Ness in Scotland, with rolling green hills in the background and a calm, deep blue lake. In the foreground, a large, shadowy figure resembling a classic sea serpent or dinosaur emerges partially from the water, creating ripples. Its head and neck are visible above the water, with a long, curved neck and a small head. The atmosphere is eerie and mysterious, with fog partially obscuring the scene and soft, diffused lighting.

We’ve been lied to. We’ve been told discipleship is a thing. That it exists. Look it up in the dictionary. The only thing defined is a disciple.

disciple | noun

dis· ci· ple | di-ˈsī-pəl

1. one who accepts and assists in spreading the doctrines of another

In the Bible, there is no word for discipleship. Why? Because disciple-making isn’t a thing, it’s a person making disciples. The Church’s Great Commission in Matthew 28 is not to offer discipleship, to offer programs of discipleship, but to go make disciples. Disciple-making is an action with results that can be measured. Discipleship is like the Loch Ness monster. People say they’ve seen it. We have some grainy photos from the past of what it might look like. Books have been written. A lot of people believe it exists. Explorers have invested tremendous resources to prove its existence. But the creature is still elusive at best if it exists at all.

With the myth of discipleship and no real definition of what it is, many things are pointed…

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