While every disciple is a believer not every believer is a disciple. In other words you can be a believer and not a disciple i.e follower of Christ. A disciple is someone who has made up his or her mind to follow Jesus and pattern their lives after His. In our world today this is not easy,because it means choosing to do things the way Jesus would have done them. It means making the word of God i.e The Bible, THE “user’s manual of life”. When you truly make a commitment to be Christ’s disciple you will do things differently because you will always have “Christ’s perspective”. It was said of the early apostles “these men who have turned the world upside down have come here also.”(Acts 17v6b). The early apostles,(just 12 of them) earned a reputation of being world shakers and world changers. They turned their world upside down. In other words, they did not conform to the pattern of their known world at that time, rather they set the pace. We should not be ashamed of the gospel of Christ, rather we should be proud to be known as Disciples and bold and courageous to take a stand for Christ, no matter whose ox is gored.A lot of false, deceitful and covetous teachings have infiltrated the simplicity of the true gospel of Christ. It is time to return back to the true and unadulterated gospel. There is no time, there is only opportunity. Make good use of every opportunity opened up to you to know and serve HIM better.
Luke9v23 “And He said to all, if any person wills to come after Me, let him deny himself (disown himself, forget, lose sight of himself and his own interests, refuse and give up himself) and take up his cross daily and follow me (cleave steadfastly to Me, conform wholly to My example in living and if need be, in dying also).” AMP
1John2v6 “He that saith he abideth in Him ought himself also to walk, even as He walked.”
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