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

confusion. What is a disciple? Now that will begin to have brains churning when you ask that question. The Complete Book of Discipleship by Bill Hull begins to identify what a disciple is and much more. What is a Disciple? Answering this question in our Western culture is not comfortable in many churches. A disciple was one of the twelve people that walked alongside Jesus in the Gospels and it stops there. Many people want to be Christians without having to carry the tag disciple alongside them. However

Scarlett Long Mr. Phil New Testament 2 February 2016 The Book of Acts The book of Acts was written by the disciple Luke, who also wrote the book of Luke. He wrote this book as a sequel of the Gospel of Luke. Acts really focuses on History and Sermons through the Apostles. There are several people that are mentioned in the book of Acts, however, the key people that acts focuses on are Peter, Paul, John, James, Stephen, Barnabas, Timothy, Lydia, Silas, and Apollos. Acts was named Acts

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

In the article “What the disciples learned while grieving in ‘The Upper Room’” by James F. Keenan. The author dives into the importance of the “Upper Room” regarding the Gospel of Jesus Christ after crucifixion. Keenan explores the disciples' experiences post crucifixion, following their journey through grievance to the recognition of the resurrection of Jesus Christ. The beginning of the article sets the initial understanding of the disciples' feelings of disbelief, fear and mourning of Jesus’ death

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 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

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

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

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

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