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By Kevin
Finkenbinder, kwfinken@gmail.com
Discipleship is one of those
“Christian words” that no one seems able to define. We know discipleship is important because
Jesus said we are to “make disciples” (Matthew 28:18-20), but what is a
disciple? The Greek word μαθητης
(mathetes) means learner or pupil.
In the 1st century
context, a disciple would imitate their teacher in every way possible. Of course their teacher also learned by
imitating someone else. This is why Paul
could tell the Corinthians, “Be imitators of me, just as I also am of Christ”
(1 Corinthians 11:1). This was not
prideful of Paul, this was the way that people learned.
