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The Essential Call: Recovering the Ancient Practice of Making Disciples

The Essential Call: Recovering the Ancient Practice of Making Disciples

Cadieux, Pastor David M.

Paperback

Christian LivingGeneral Christianity

ISBN13: 9798385096916
Publisher: WestBow Press
Published: Oct 15 2026
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.27 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Ask any number of believers to define the word Christian, and get a room full of different answers. From someone who believes Jesus rose from the dead to someone who attends church to a good person who tries to do the right thing. Each answer holds a fragment of truth but none capture what Jesus Himself meant when He called people to follow Him. This book starts with this uncomfortable point: much of Western church has substituted the word convert for the word disciple. We have built a new Christianity that asks for a decision but not require a life - a single decision rather than a lifelong way of walking. But the risen Christ never once commissioned His followers to make converts. He commanded them to make disciples (Matthew 28:19). That is not a semantics. It is the difference between a transaction and a transformation, between signing a card and taking up a cross. This vocabulary gap is worth pausing on. The noun Christian occurs three times in the entire New Testament (Acts 11:26; 26:28; 1 Peter 4:16). The word disciple or disciples occurs more than 260 times in the Gospels and Acts alone. The earliest believers called themselves disciples, and before that, simply the Way (Acts 9:2; 19:9, 23; 24:14, 22). This book exists to recover what that difference actually means, and then to put it back into practice.

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