Therefore go and make disciples of all nations- Mathew 28:19 (NIV)
Here during His Great Commission our Lord Jesus Christ commanded his disciples to proclaim the Gospel and make them not only as believers of Him but disciples.
What is to be a disciple?
There are two thing a disciple does
- The disciple will be a servant to the master and learns from Him
- The Master after teaching the disciple sends the disciple alone to live in the teachings and to teach other people what he has learned
In the same way Jesus after teaching his disciples for 3 years and when the time came he sent them to the world to proclaim the Gospel and make him disciples.
In a interesting fact the word disciples comes about 28 time in the Book Acts of the Apostles but the word believers coming around 3 times. The early church was committed to make disciples rather than just believers.
We see people in today’s church as believers depending on God for only for blessings of the world rather than living according to his will. The disciples of Jesus were in the same way. They wanted to be beside Jesus to control people, to be seated at the right and left side of him and even hindered him from going to the cross according to our Fathers will. But Jesus transformed them be his disciples after His death at the cross and through The Holy Spirit.
Today God through AOJ is making disciples through BFF and Gift schools to make every one attending not only as believers of Jesus Christ but to be his disciples.
Prayer:
Father God give us the grace to be your disciple always to follow in your footsteps and to make more disciples for you as you commanded, In Jesus name I pray. Amen
Sol.Leo