1. What is discipleship? 

a. Matthew 16:24 If you want to come behind me (train as a disciple of Jesus), he is renounced, his cross is raised, and imitate me. 

2. What is the difference between following Jesus and imitating Jesus? 

a. Akoulotheo is the Greek word that can be translated as either follow or imitate. Curious crowds follow, knowing that Jesus provides good things. Imitators understand the cross and suffering and are willing to share in it.

3. Doesn’t one person make a disciple of another person? 

a. Matthew 28:19-20, also known as the great commission, says to train disciples rather than ‘make’ disciples. Mathateuo from the Greek New Testament is a rendering of Greek words, manthano and mathataes, the first meaning, the act of learning or instructing and the second meaning disciple. Baptizing new believers and then teaching them to keep strict Jesus’ Twenty Commands is the method to training disciples.

4. I was baptized as a baby. Is that sufficient for training as a disciple? 

a. The act of immersion under water (known as baptism because the Greek word is ‘baptisma’) is a spiritual event. A collection of Bible verses describes this event as a spiritual death and resurrection, a spiritual cleansing of sin, and finally the method to receiving the spirit-fruit seed. Once out of the water, discipleship begins of producing that spirit-fruit through the commands and the Jesus-Walk. A baby is unable to fulfill or understand any of the above. 

5. Why isn’t going to church and serving in church sufficient for being a disciple of Jesus? 

a. John 15:8 “In this My Father is glorified, that you produce much fruit, becoming my disciples.” New Testament writer, Paul, defines spirit fruit in Galatians 5:22-23 as generous concern, joy, peace (concord), clemency (resist retaliation), virtue, goodness, benevolence (charity), faithfulness and self-restraint. 1 John 2:6 “The one who claims to dwell in Him is indebted to walk just as He walked.” In Divine Discipleship, you will learn how to keep strict the twenty commands to produce this spirit-fruit and develop what we call the Jesus-Walk. Going to church and serving the church is a small part of this process. 

6. What happened to the Ten Commandments if the Twenty Commands (also known as the Sermon on the Mount) took its place? 

a. Jesus did not abolish the Ten Commandments; He upgraded them. For example, it’s still not ok to kill someone, but in the new covenant of the Twenty Commands, you’ll value the enemy that you originally would have killed.