"Discipleship is the process of becoming who Jesus would be if he were you."
- Dallas Willard
"What I heard was that you can have the one without the other - that you can be saved and not be a disciple. I smelled a theological rat in that claim."
- Scot McKnight
"Discipleship is not an option. Jesus says that if anyone would come after me, he must follow me."
- Tim Keller
"When the church becomes an end in itself, it ends... What we need is for discipleship to become the goal, and then the process never ends. The process is fluid. It is moving. It is active. It is a living thing. It must continue to go on. Every disciple must make
disciples."
- Robby Gallaty
"The one indispensable requirement for producing godly, mature Christians is godly, mature Christians."
- Kevin DeYoung
"Thriving churches have the Great Commission as the centerpiece of their vision, while dying churches have forgotten the clear command of Christ."
- Thom S. Rainer
"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."
- David Kinnaman
"Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ."
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"Only a disciple can make a disciple."
- A. W. Tozer
"26 If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will my Father honour."
- Jesus Christ, John 12.
" 18 And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.
19 Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.
20 Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven.
21 In that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit, and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes: even so, Father; for so it seemed good in thy sight.
22 All things are delivered to me of my Father: and no man knoweth who the Son is, but the Father; and who the Father is, but the Son, and he to whom the Son will reveal him."
- Jesus Christ, Luke 10.