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Discipleship

• You can only get out of a man what you put into him. If you put nothing in, how can you make a withdrawal? [Wayman Mitchell]
  
  
• Accountability is allowing uncomfortable questions and confrontative inquisitions in order to promote growth.
  
  
• Discipleship is the grooming of friends who can be trusted. [Larry Neville]
  
  
• Discipleship means adherence to the person of Jesus, and therefore submission to the law of Christ which is the law of the cross. [Dietrich Bonhoffer]
  
  
• Jesus as Christ is Christ only in the virtue of His suffering and rejection, so the disciple is a disciple only in so far as he shares in his Lord’s suffering and rejection and crucifixion. [Dietrich Bonhoffer]
  
  
• Don’t get so heavenly minded that your no earthly good.
  
  
• God’s will is everything, but everything is not the will of God. [Tom Drout]
  
  
• A fundamental law of teaching states: ‘You cannot impart what you do not possess.’
  
  
• Teaching is imparting truth by demonstration.

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