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Bibliotheca Sacra, Volume 160.

discipleship. This change manifests itself in a change in terminology. The word “disciple” is not used outside of the Gospels, except in Acts where it is a technical term referring to all believers.12 Yet the goal of the Christian life is to become like Christ,13 just as this was stressed in the Gospels (Rom. 8:29; 1 Cor. 15:49; 2 Cor. 3:18; Eph. 4:13–15; Col. 3:9–10; 1 John 3:2). In the Gospels becoming like Christ was accomplished by physically going where He went, seeing what He did, hearing what
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