Discipleship' as a term has lost its content, and this is one reason why it has been moved aside. I've tried to redeem the idea of discipleship, and I think it can be done; you have to get it out of the contemporary mode.

In the area of social righteousness we cannot be right on the inside and not do it. We cannot! Of course we have people who pretend that they can, but it simply isn't true.

There is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve.

You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don't think him competent.

Two ways of thinking: Human kingdom and human cleverness or God's kingdom and God's cleverness

God has yet to bless anyone except where they actually are, and if we faithlessly discard situation after situation, moment after moment, as not being "right," we will simply have no place to receive his kingdom into our life.

As we reach out to God, we get another source of strength.