Discipleship

Summary

The sermon emphasizes the distinction between being a disciple and making disciples, highlighting that disciple-making is a long-term, relational, and challenging process that requires strength, perseverance, and adherence to biblical truth. It underscores the cost of discipleship, including enduring opposition and distractions, and stresses the importance of teaching the gospel faithfully and multiplying disciples through personal investment. The preacher also highlights the role of all believers, especially parents and church leaders, in this ministry, and uses biblical metaphors of a soldier and athlete to illustrate the discipline and commitment required.