Discipling Quotes & Sayings

For a person to be truly discipled and growing in their faith, they need more than one person discipling them. — Francis Chan

How do you know if you are living to far above (or below) those among whom you are ministering? Ask yourself this question: Is this (car, house, lifestyle) helping me or hindering me in winning and discipling people for Jesus? — Loren Cunningham

Discipling our children is not about teaching them to behave in a way that won't embarrass us. We're working toward something much more important than that. We're actually raising our children with a view toward leading them to trust and to follow Christ. — Voddie T. Baucham Jr.

Training leaders is part of the work of discipling. — Max Anders

Ultimately, discipling involves living out the whole Christian life before others. — Mark Dever

My body is a projection of my consciousness. — Deepak Chopra

I came to the conclusion that I am not a fiction writer. — Tim LaHaye

Thinking that education is something different from discipling our children is a sure sign that we have been 'educated' by the state. Education is discipleship. — R.C. Sproul Jr.

Christian mission is not simply about the multiplication of the church; it is about the discipling of the nations. It is about the penetration of cultures and ways of thought by the word about Christ. — Andrew F. Walls

While we may give lip service to discipling our children, the reality comes when we start prioritizing activities. The — Chap Bettis

Each generation must, out of relative obscurity, discover its mission, fulfill it, or betray it.
— Frantz Fanon

Although culture is a creation of speech, it is recreated anew by every medium of communication - from painting to hieroglyphs to the alphabet to television. Each medium, like language itself, makes possible a unique mode of discourse by providing a new orientation for thought, for expression, for sensibility. — Neil Postman

When the institutional church gives attention to cultural engagement - the fourth and final ministry front - it does so primarily by discipling a community of believers who work as the church organic. By teaching the Christian doctrine of vocation, the goodness of creation, the importance of culture, and the practice of Sabbath, it should be inspiring and encouraging its members to go into the various channels of culture. — Timothy Keller

People tell me things they shouldn't. Things they ought to be powdering over, shoveling underground, facts they ought to be stuffing into a carpetbag before dropping into the river and quietly drowning. — Lyndsay Faye

Until you see how the person you've invested in is or isn't growing, you really don't know if you've gotten through. Until you see the fruit of your discipling in reproduction, you're not sure you've finished your work. From the beginning, reproduction was always on Jesus' mind. He isn't just looking to the next generation, but also to the generation beyond that generation and the generation beyond that one. He's looking always to the fulfillment of His plan to reach the world. — Anonymous

Whereas disinfecting Christians involves isolating them and teaching them to be good, discipling Christians involves propelling Christians into the world to risk their lives for the sake of others. Now the world is our focus, and we gauge success in the church not on the hundreds or thousands whom we can get into our buildings but on the hundreds or thousands who are leaving our buildings to take on the world with the disciples they are making — David Platt

Discipling involves instruction and imitation. — Mark Dever

If you cannot be accused of exclusivity, you are not discipling. — Howard G. Hendricks

We speak of love when we destroy nature.
It sounds like innocence of cruel arrogance. — Toba Beta

Mine is to chew on the appropriate texts and make them delectable. — Gregory Of Nyssa

A resistance stirs within us. Do we *want* our theology paraded thus? As natural men, no. We do not want it any more than we want the discipling of the Christian moral law, repentance, the painful call of self-surrender. but if it is the intellectual expression of that faith by which we live, how can our minds work Christianly without it? Wherever men think and talk, the banner will have to be raised. — Harry Blamires

Wisdom and humility demand that we consider what our brothers and sisters through the ages have done by way of catechizing and discipling, and test the merit of these efforts by consideration of the biblical data. We are most unwise to try to continually reinvent the catechetical wheel or to assume that we are more likely than our forebears to be faithful to Scripture. Our — J.I. Packer

Want to change history? Luke made a stab at humor. — Margaret Peterson Haddix

From age eleven to age sixteen I lived a spartan life without the usual adolescent uncertainty. I wanted to be the best swimmer in the world, and there was nothing else. — Diana Nyad

People ascribe a certain kind of silliness to the movie business. Everybody feels like, "In the movies, they do crazy stuff." — Ben Affleck