Librería Samer Atenea
Kálamo Books
Librería Elías (Asturias)
Librería Kolima (Madrid)
Librería Proteo (Málaga)
Ask any number of believers to define the word 'Christian,' andget a room full of different answers. From 'someone who believesJesus rose from the dead' to 'someone who attends church' to 'agood person who tries to do the right thing'. Each answer holdsa fragment of truth but none capture what Jesus Himself meantwhen He called people to follow Him.This book starts with this uncomfortable point: much of Westernchurch has substituted the word convert for the word disciple. Wehave built a new Christianity that asks for a decision but not requirea life - a single decision rather than a lifelong way of walking. Butthe risen Christ never once commissioned His followers to makeconverts. He commanded them to make disciples (Matthew 28:19).That is not a semantics. It is the difference between a transactionand 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 than260 times in the Gospels and Acts alone. The earliest believerscalled 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.
