Discipleship from Jesus’s Perspective
Rediscovering and Reinstituting the Master Plan
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Discipleship has come to mean any sort of spiritual growth; which is just like saying flying means any sort of transportation. It is not Spiritual Formation, but a certain type of Spiritual Formation. The Church has forgotten that more important than becoming a disciple is whose disciple you are becoming. It is not about teaching someone to pray and read their Bibles; it is about learning how Jesus wants us to pray and read our Bibles. It is not about the doctrine of the Church but the doctrine of Jesus Christ the Head of the Church. It is not about attending a church service but attending to the Lord Jesus’ view of what it means to be the church. You simply cannot make a Christian disciple without a Master/servant relationship between a true believer and the central earthly figure of that faith. The key is to remember that in Jesus’ system of making disciples there can never be any other substitute for himself.
This is where many so called discipleship programs miss the target and the point. Christian leaders erroneously assume that just as Jesus had his disciples they are to have theirs. But we were never commanded to make disciples of ourselves. That is why the Lord limited the curriculum for this enterprise to all of the commands he gave his first disciples. Discipleship is nothing more than adhering to Jesus’ expressed will. It is treating every command he gave his disciples as if he was giving it personally to us. We become Jesus’ disciples by practicing Jesus’ commands and in the process gaining his point of view, philosophy and image.
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“In this masterful work George Gray calls the church to live out the most natural expression of her love and obedience to the Master. Grounded in careful exegesis, comprehensive, and sensitive to the complexities of modern life, Gray examines the Gospels as a script that reveals not only how Jesus shaped the first disciples, but how we must carry on making disciples in His name.”
—David B. Capes, Thomas Nelson Research Professor, Houston Baptist University
Discipleship is not about teaching someone to pray and read his or her Bible; it is about learning how Jesus wants us to pray and read our Bibles. Discipleship is not about the doctrine of the Church, but the doctrine of Jesus Christ, the head of the Church. It is not about attending a church service, but attending to the Lord Jesus’s view of what it means to be the church.
In Discipleship from Jesus’s Perspective, author George Gray presents a guide for becoming a disciple the way Jesus intended, that discipleship means adhering to His expressed will. Gray carefully examines Jesus’s pivotal statements regarding discipleship and unearths the key principles that transform the art of making a disciple from a subjective guessing game to an objective and definitive master plan.
Including purposeful questions and exercises, Discipleship from Jesus’s Perspective provides practical steps for following the master plan and applying the commands to everyday life to become a true disciple of Jesus.
About the Author
George Gray earned a bachelor’s degree in Christianity and a master’s in theological studies from Houston Baptist University. Gray is a full-time minister to the homeless. He and his wife, Eleanor, are the parents of six children and live in Humble, Texas.