What is Grace-Filled Discipleship?
John’s gospel tells us that when Jesus came to earth to live among us, he did so “full of grace and truth.”
While he was on earth, he taught many disciples – students – how to love and live and teach like he did. In Jesus’ day, teachers (rabbis) taught their students (disciples) to be able to reproduce what they learned from their teachers. When he returned to heaven after the resurrection, Jesus’ instructions to his disciples were to make more disciples – teaching them and baptizing in Spirit and truth.
If we are followers of Jesus, then we are also his disciples, which means we are called to be full of grace and truth and to make disciples.