Most people in America, when they are exposed to the Christian faith, are not being transformed. They take one step into the door, and the journey ends. They are not being allowed, encouraged, or equipped to love or to think like Christ. Yet in many ways a focus on spiritual formation fits what a new generation is really seeking. Transformation is a process, a journey, not a one-time decision.
– David Kinnaman –
We reduce discipleship to a canned program, and so many in the church end up sidelined in a spectator mentality that delegates disciple making to pastors and professionals, ministers and missionaries.
– Francis Chan –
Only a disciple can make a disciple.
– AW Tozer –
My goal is God Himself … At any cost, dear Lord, by any road.
– Oswald Chambers –
The goal of a disciple wasn’t to know what the rabbi knew; it was to be who the rabbi was.
– Brad Gray –
It is impossible to live the life of a disciple without definite times of secret prayer.
– Oswald Chambers –
We have suffered from the preaching of cheap grace. Grace is free, but it is not cheap. People will take anything that is free, but they are not interested in discipleship. They will take Christ as Savior but not as Lord.
– Vance Havner –
Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer –
The hard judgments and unreasonable expectations of old disciples have often driven back and discouraged young beginners in the school of Christ.
– JC Ryle –
from Expository Thoughts on the Gospels, 1856