Discipleship

Disciple in Greek means student, apprentice, one who learns. One who follows and entrusts himself to someone's teaching. One who sits at the feet of a master to learn from him. Disciple was already a common word in New Testament times, so much so that the term was not just used to designate the followers of Jesus.

Therefore, the disciple of Christ can be defined as every person who, being saved through faith in Jesus Christ, including a child, begins to follow him as their Lord. This is the definition of a disciple. And the expression to make disciples which is found in the great commission in Matthew 28:19, and which in the original Greek is in the imperative form, literally means to disciple.