Make Disciples

This is an exerpt from John Piper and Desiring God Ministries

Discipleship and Death to Self

....The most important word I think that Jesus ever said about becoming a disciple was Luke 14:27, "Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple." Bearing a cross does not mean primarily having hard times. It means going to Golgotha. It means dying with Christ- dying to the old attitudes of envy and strife and jealousy and anger and selfisheness and pride; and turning to follow Jesus in newness of life. When we make disciples, we bid them to come and die to their old and destructive ways and to live for Jesus, who loved them and gave himself for them.