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Making Disciples: The Significance of Jesus’ Educational Methods for Today’s Church is unavailable, but you can change that!

In this study, Sylvia Collinson examines the biblical practice of discipling, formulates a definition of discipleship, and makes comparisons with modern models of education. She also recommends greater attention for the practice of discipleship in the contemporary church. This significant contribution to both the theoretical appreciation and application of disciple-making is relevant to any...

Where it has been practised, it has sometimes been misused or left mainly to a well-meaning but untrained laity. When ‘discipleship’ is discussed the word is used (1) to encourage a particular lifestyle or (2) to refer to the relationships between Jesus and his disciples and to construe similar actions as appropriate for followers today or (3) to help establish new believers in the faith by the exercise of Christian ‘disciplines’.1 However, it seems that more searching theological, philosophical
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