Discipleship

Discipleship is one of the most pressing needs in the Church of Jesus Christ in this present day. The lack of it has resulted in a Church who is ill-prepared to face the challenges of life successfully and to fulfill our God-given destiny to be the Light of the world and the Salt of the earth! This lack has caused the Church to be influenced by the very world to which we are to be a standard and a preserving influence. In 1Timothy 3:15, Paul declares that the Church is to be the pillar and ground of truth. Instead of the world being affected by the Church as she holds up the standard of truth, the Church has so often been infected by the world as she holds up the standard of worldliness.

True disciples don’t just automatically emerge once people become believers; they are built as surely as any house. Houses just don’t happen; they are systematically built. So it is with the house of God. Ephesians 2:19-22 states that we as believers are being built together as a house for the habitation of God. Believers are to be built as a house for God individually so that we might be fitly framed together as a corporate house or temple of God. As God’s house, we are to be built upon the foundation or bedrock of Jesus Christ – 1 Corinthians 3:11.