What did discipleship mean for the first disciples? A disciple was someone who followed or learned form another leader

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What did discipleship mean for the first disciples?

A disciple was someone who followed or learned form another leader. There were many disciples to many different leaders in Jesus' day, but Jesus disciples were different as they did not choose to follow him they were more special to Jesus as Jesus chose them, as most people choose who they want to follow themselves. Jesus' disciples had more difficulty as they had more work to do for example healing sick people.

For the first disciples, discipleship meant responding immediately to Jesus' call. They had to preach the good news to people in order to catch followers into the kingdom of god. They would have to heal people, including those physically sick and those believed to be possesses by demons. God had to act through the disciples. He couldn't act through them if they didn't have any faith. They had to be confident in God, themselves and what they preached. An example of when they did not have enough faith to heal is 'The Epileptic Boy'. When they follow Jesus it is a complete change of direction and lifestyle. They went from being fishermen to preachers of gods message. They had to put a blind faith in Jesus. The disciples didn't ask any questions, they had complete trust and total acceptance in Jesus' call. The disciples dropped everything and took nothing which was a major sacrifice. They had to leave a lot of things such as food, clothes, personal belongings, family, friends and even their jobs.
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The disciples left their comfortable lifestyle for a much harder, nomadic lifestyle. " Foxes have holes, birds of the air have nests but the son of man has nowhere to lay his head" this tells us how hard a life Jesus lived. The disciples when leaving to follow Jesus had no idea where they would next sleep or where their next meal would come from. They were totally reliant on god but also others " I f you enter a house anywhere, stay there until you leave the district." They would have had to have an enormous amount ...

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