*DISCIPLE/*DISCIPLESHIP - also see DISCIPLINE
You can't be taught carpentry (or discipleship), but you can be taught to appreciate it. Discipleship is a experience for our entire life; the have nots cry for liberation/healing and haves should cry for joy; should be following in the foot-steps of the Messiah, therefore, must know the Messiah; salaam peace; Jesus' peace, not as the world gives peace; should not be afraid; should touch others lives; doing the will of God; suffering love; rise/come/go/see/tell; service; faith/hope through danger; threat to us who have abundance. (Fr. Meagher from St. James)
To follow Jesus is to follow him out of the old legality of living in this world'ss systemss and into the new reality of living in a mmuch larrrger truth. It is to move beyond the first levels of faith and on to the matture level. It is to get out of membership and into discipleship. It is to get past relating to God as lawgiver to discovering God as lifegiver. (ThemesNT, p22)
If it's not costing you something, then you are not doing it right. (???)