DISCIPLESHIP

Dictionary Meaning

1) noun...the position of a disciple.

2) verb...the process of making someone like someone else.

Breakdown

(Disciple + Ship)

1) Disciple = A scholar (student); a learner (to gain knowledge of or skill in through study, instruction, or experience); a person who receives (is given) instruction (detailed direction about how to do something) from another (someone other than self); One who embraces (to hold close to usually as an expression of affection; to adopt as one's own) and assists (to give help/support to) in spreading the teachings (act/practices) of another; A follower (one who accepts the guidance, command, leadership of another with strong interest and close attention) of the doctrine (a body of standards, morals, virtues, ideal, belief, law, teachings presented for acceptance or belief) of a teacher (one who educates, guides, advises, trains, coaches).

2) Ship = A vessel (a vehicle designed for movement) of considerable (large; significant) size for water (a clear, colorless, odorless and tasteless liquid essential for most living organisms) navigation (traveling, charting of a course); to cause to be transported (to send out); when added (connected) to a word it changes (makes different, transforms) it to a noun (person, place or thing), if the word is already noun the root (base, origin) word now takes on a different (something other than what currently is) meaning (definition, interpretation) denotating (indicating, implying) the state/condition (the manner of how something is in regards to its' determining factors) of being (the totality of existence), the position (location, placement) status (position relative to others) or duties (required action, responsibilities, obligation) of something.

I figure these two words are combined because the body of Christ's Disciples are to be looked at like ships sent out by the Lord with the intent to sail across the sea of mankind righteously connecting themselves to the people with the single purpose of making a holy difference in their lives by delivering unto them the precious cargo that they carry which we are to understand is the word of the truth, the Gospel of Jesus the Christ/the Word of God.

*Standard dictionary used*

Make it all make sense...Biblical Context

Discipleship in its' active state is when the students who are willingly walking with Christ submit themselves whole heartedly to his guidance, his leadership, being certain to pay close attention to the knowledge he is imparting upon them through his detailed teachings and daily living practices of his standards, morals, values and ideologies. When the students of Christ have come into a level of learning that not only embraces the knowledge in which they were taught but adopts the belief system of Christ as their own in the totality of their existence, then has a level of learning been achieved where the student's education and lifestyle have allowed for a progression into the divine movement for the Disciples of Christ. Having achieved this goal, the Disciples being filled with the Holy Spirit have now been given the responsibility by the Lord Jehovah to go out into the world and coexist, being certain to speak, teach and replicate all that Christ has taught when they were most studious in the learning phase of discipleship (not that we ever stop learning, as our level of learning continuously matures as we grow in Christ daily).

In summary, Discipleship is living a life in obligation to the Kingdom of Heaven that through the presence of Christ's Disciples all human beings are presented with the opportunity to be changed at their root (meaning heart), that who they are in the totality of their existence is transformed and enhanced in God, that they too become Disciples of Christ, choosing to live life according to his beliefs and in the spirit of Discipleship.

(For a biblical understanding of the characteristics of a Disciple and the movement of Discipleship read the New Testament. The gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke and John) talks about Jesus and the 12 Disciples from the choosing, the teaching/learning to the ultimate command of labor. The book of Acts to Revelation defines the movement of Discipleship in respect to showing how the Disciples took what they learned from Jesus and after his death and resurrection being filled with the Holy Spirit journeyed across the land teaching and being a reflection of holiness according to the life and ministry of Jesus.

DISCIPLESHIP = A CONSISTENT PERPETUATION OF CHRIST LIKE REPLICATION