The true disciple is also here to take there cross; this involves making sacrifices in our lives. There are many sacrifices in family lives for example, parent(s) who endlessly care a sick child, or goes without luxuries in our there lives to provide and care for there children. Giving their time and patience towards elderly relations is also making a sacrifice for the person. The life of a true disciple will be marked by self-denial, generosity, and endless charity.
On another occasion Jesus said, whoever wants to be great must be servant of all.
Christians are called to use their talents to be of service to others. The majority of people’s service is given in society through work.
Many jobs gives services, through teachers, doctors, nurses, postman, the industrial workforce and also construction people who provide people with making them homes they all do services.
Some people actually take on particular vocations to be of services to other and never to him.
Many people are affected by these teachings today, examples of these are nuns and brothers, and they give vows of chastity, poverty, and obedience. ‘There is sister (nun) in the parish which I go to school in and she gives her teaching or uses her talents by learning others, and she devote her wages to the house that she lives in with other sisters (nun).
The teachings on discipleship may also affect Christians by what others have sacrificed and given up and maybe these teachings are telling us that we should do the same, there is only a small majority of people in the world that do go by the teachings of Jesus and his disciples e.g. this could mean sacrificing possessions and families and leaving them behind to go and follow the path of Christ.
Jesus and his disciples taught many things throughout there teachings and if Christians where to follow what was said then there lives maybe changed or affected by this.
The widows offering in Mark 13:27 is a clear occasion when she sacrificed or give whatever she had and Jesus she she has give most because she has give out of poverty and the rest give out of riches.