discipler

Each discipler, or mentor since Jesus, will never be close to being a perfect example.

How would you know if you had been successful as a discipler?

Each church member, or disciple, has a discipler, he said, who is supposed to help that member's spiritual growth.

But even as an appointed discipler, you are never not a disciple who is learning and growing in Christ through your relationships.

You told your discipler everything about your day, everything you were thinking.

Every Christian, including you, is both a disciple and a discipler in the context of his Christian relationships.

Conversely, you may not have an "official" responsibility to disciple anyone, but you are never not a discipler.

Consequently, the discipler needs to use an invitational tone while insisting that those being trained are increasingly learning to discern what the Lord is saying to them.

A good counselor should be a good discipler, and a good discipler should be a good counselor.

"You usually will be viewed as 'going against God' if you act in opposition to the advice of your discipler, but seen only as a headstrong child if you go against the wishes of your mother," writes Chrnalogar in the book.

He commented to The Philadelphia Inquirer in 2000 on the subject of the controversial religious group, the evangelical International Church of Christ; that the methodology behind the group "is that you give yourself over to the person who acts as your 'shepherd' or discipler, and they get tremendous control over you."