Disciple Essays

INTRODUCTION Have you ever read a book or watched a movie or TV show in which the end of the story leaves you in a complete mystery? Isn’t it frustrating to be left hanging on the edge of your seat wondering who the murderer was or what was to be the fate of some individual. I like a good mystery book or movie as long as it unfolds in the end. It isn’t a good movie or book if I’m not kept on the edge of my seat and then at the end it all makes sense. We all have the desire to find out the unknown

Grenouille parallels Christ in his first moments. Suskind first applies setting to create a godlike image by making Grenouille’s birth take place in a fish market. In the bible Christ speaks onto his disciples “Follow me and I will make you fishers of men” (Authorized King James Version, Matthew 4:19). The fish motif parallels Grenouille with Christ and creates an expectation of leadership to salvation. Suskind incorporates multiple features into Grenouille’s

ramification of Black Organized Crime was the Gangster Disciples. This group was a Chicago-based street gang that started in the late 1960s by a merging of two gangs. They were a well-organized group and they had tens of thousands of members spread around the streets of Chicago. According to Abadinsky (2013)," the Gangster Disciples are Chicago's best-known African American crime group." This being said people wanted to be a part of the Gangster Disciples mostly for the prestige of having that title; since

As we all probably know, the twelve disciples were ordinary men who served Christ up to his Crucifixion. These disciples, or apostles if you will, really laid the foundation of Jesus Christ’s church. Several disciples even wrote important portions of the Holy Bible. I believe it is extremely evident that God includes great importance when it comes to these twelve men. While these men were not perfect like Christ himself, they still fulfilled his messages and teachings with amazing efficiency for

1. In our school, we do have some students who are identified as having behavior disorders. It is important that our teachers are qualified and understand how to interact with our students when stress occurs. Describe your disciple philosophy? 2. We use running records in our classrooms to perform benchmarking and progress monitoring of our students. What would a guided reading block look like in your classroom? 3. Second grade is self-contained so you will be responsible for making sure you

In The Lost Art of Disciple Making, LeRoy Eims served with The Navigators for over 50 years in a variety of ministries, including Director of U.S. Ministries, International Ministry Representative, and Director of Evangelism Worldwide. He broadened his ministry through the writing of 14 books, including the best-selling The Lost Art of Disciple Making. His personal ministry continues on through the lives of his family, and through countless scores of people in harvest fields around the world who

The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner’s Semester At America’s Holiest University by Kevin Roose gives a unique perspective on the different cultures in America and how diverse each one can be. Kevin Roose, an undergraduate at Brown University, decides to “study abroad” at the conservative evangelical Liberty University to see what it was like in stark contrast to his liberal Ivy League. Upon arriving there, he was an outsider who was used to seeing those types of people (evangelicals/born-again Christians)

Black Gangster Disciple Nation on the basis of the Del Vikings, the Black Souls, and the West Side Cobras. The Black Gangster Disciples became known as, “a young street organization striving for a place of high recognition and respect in the City of Chicago” (Emery, n.d., p. 11). The symbol of the Black Gangster Disciple Nation stemmed from the three previous gangs just mentioned above. The wars ceased when Larry and David formed together as a unit to phase out the Black Stone Rangers. The goal

This passage is called the Great Commissioning of the disciples. It is the final instructive word from Jesus to His church. Some context is: Jesus had just risen. The Jews had killed Him and Jesus’ commission is mainly given to the disciples, but it applies to all of the church. Jesus gave this last message before he ascended into Heaven. Jesus says to his disciples that “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me” implying that his authority is world-wide and absolute so there commission

on water, is that the disciple Peter isn't mentioned in the Gospel of Mark; whereas in the Gospel of Matthew, Peter gets out of the boat and walks on the water to go towards Jesus. However, the actual difference between the gospels of Mark and Matthew is the variation between the twelve disciples and the way the disciples in Mark obeyed Jesus’ request to go on ahead to the other side whereas the disciples in Matthew did not. Ultimately, in the gospel of Matthew the disciples aren’t working to do what

Black Disciples (BDs), located on the south side of Chicago. They have gained notoriety over the past decade for the relationship they have with hip-hop. Most listeners only know about this. It goes deeper than that. The Black Disciples have proven to be extremely dangerous and are known to do anything to solidify their image. There is a meaning in why the Black Disciples do what they do. The average person hears the world ‘gang’ and assumes they are

The dichotomy I see most prevalent in the church today is between active disciples and passive Christians. We know that the Bible teaches that all Christians are disciples and all disciples are Christians. However, vast numbers of people quickly identify themselves as Christians but are slower to recognize themselves as disciples. Once while speaking about discipleship, I asked the audience of 100+ long time Christians/church-goers to raise their hand if they considered themselves Christians. Immediately

the story of Jesus feeding the five thousand. Jesus’ disciples had returned to him to share what they had taught. Jesus replies by telling them to find a quiet place and rest for some time. Many people in the city Jesus and his disciples were located in, followed them. As the followers surrounded Jesus, he noticed “they were like sheep without a shepherd” (Mark 6:34). So, he began to teach them. As it grew later in the day, Jesus’ disciples told him that he should send the followers away so

The beauty and comprehensiveness of Kirk’s “mission is the Christian life” definition is to be admired. It appears to adequately describe the transformed life and task of a true disciple of Christ. 2.2.4 Radical Discipleship Mission The fourth stream is called radical discipleship mission. This viewpoint has a strong socio-political emphasis, maintaining that social justice and evangelism are equally important but genuinely distinct aspects of the total mission of the church. This position also

Ark of Bones A disciple is a personal follower of Jesus during his life, especially one of the twelve Apostles. Henry Dumas experience as a Sunday school teacher allows him to be familiar with the bible. In Henry Dumas’s short story “Ark of Bones”, there are multiple biblical references to the bible. Headeye and Fish-hound are similar to Jesus and his disciples because of their relationship, journeys, and beliefs. A brotherly relationship is not secluded to blood relatives, but the bond

Jesus of Nazareth, and he responds “I am he”. The soldiers fall to the ground. The reason they fall to the ground is most likely because “I am” can be translated to “Jehovah” and they realized that he was claiming deity. He tells them to let his disciples go and just take him. Simon Peter draws a sword and cuts off a servant’s ear. Simon Peter is trying to defend Jesus and help him get away (he was probably trying to kill the servant, not just wound him.) “So Jesus said to Peter, “Put your sword into

The disciples were subject to much persecution from the Jewish hierarchy, Roman rule and even from those that profited from pagan rituals. After the ascension of Christ the disciples carried forward with the spreading of the Gospel of Christ and in doing so they endured many faith trying scenarios. Not only were the disciples tried but all believers, to some extent, worshiped with not only joy and excitement but with a certain amount of fear. The disciples being instructed by the powers to be not

also aimed to reinvent the teachings of Jesus so that they could be understood in contemporary terms. By using modern techniques, like incorporating comedy, for example, the audience finds themselves immersed in the exchanged between Jesus and His disciples and can fully comprehend the lessons of the parables that Jesus tells. Just as Christ tried to teach complex

modern-day audience. In the Bible, Jesus illustrates his teaching to his disciples through stories of everyday situations. The play/film accomplishes the same task, but because Godspell is set thousands of years later, the details of the stories are once again modernized to the intended audience. The

collector who becomes a disciple of Jesus by the name of Matthew was one of the few that changed parts of the bible as he saw fit. Matthew has been said to follow Mark’s Gospel but often changed the meaning or the arrangements of passages to fit his own agenda. Matthew’s version of the Mark Gospel was created for various reasons not only to present his own version of the story. Matthew decided to significantly shorten the stories of Jesus’s miracles making it seem as if the disciples had more faith within