The Nature Of Dicsipleship

While studying Marks Gospel I learned a lot about the nature of Dicsipleship. For example, Marks Gospel reveals a lot about the nature of Dicsipleship, about faith, sacrifice, service/selflesness, choosing Jesus, etc.... I believe that the most important quality of dicsipleship is faith or maybe even sacrifice.

I believe Faith is definitely a compulsory quality for a Dicsiple.

Mark 4:35-40 "Jesus was in the back of the boat sleeping, with his head on a pillow. The Dicsiples woke him up and said, 'Teacher, don't you care that we are about to die.'"

Here we can see a lack of faith , as the Dicsiples are just setting out with Jesus, they are not yet able to understand the ways of Jesus. It also shows we are not always able to be faithful all the time, and inspite of this, Jesus will always help us to have stronger faith.

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Another example of faith would be the story of the mustard seed.

Mark 4:31-32 "A man takes a mustard seed, the smallest in the world, and plants it in the ground. After a while it grows up and becomes the biggest of all plants. It puts out such large branches that the birds come and make their nests in its shade."

The mustard seed is the smallest seed on the earth. and with enough nutrients, it becomes one of the most amazing plants ever. This shows a very important thing. No matter how small your faith is, if you put ...

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