Quotes on Discipleship

Cheap grace is the grace we bestow on ourselves. Cheap grace is the preaching of
forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, Communion without confession…. Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship

If I teach my son to keep his eye on the ball but fail to teach him to keep his eye on Christ, I have failed as a Father.
Voddie Baucham

A man ought to live so that everybody knows he is a Christian…and most of all, his family ought to know.
D. L. Moody

Marriage is for making children into disciples of Jesus. Here the focus shifts. This purpose of marriage is not merely to add more bodies to the planet. The point is to increase the number of followers of Jesus on the planet… God’s purpose in making marriage the place to have children was never merely to fill the earth with people, but to fill the earth with worshippers of the true God… When the focus of marriage becomes “Make children disciples of Jesus,” the meaning of marriage in relation to children is not mainly “Make them,” but “Make them disciples.” And the latter can happen even where the former doesn’t.
John Piper This Momentary Marriage – A Parable of Permanence, Desiring God Foundation, 2008, p.138-139

The one indispensable requirement for producing godly, mature Christians is godly, mature Christians.
Kevin DeYoung 

We are not meant to die merely in order to be dead. God could not want that for the creatures to whom He has given the breath of life. We die in order to live.
Elisabeth Elliot, Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ’s Control