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Disciple- What is the meaning of the word Disciple
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A disciple is a person who is disciplined, taught or instructed according to the father’s moral instructions and teachings.
The word “disciple” originates from the word called ” to discipline“.
:one who accepts his master’s or father‘s life style, and assists in spreading the doctrine (teachings, and way of living) of his father’s lineage.
The structuring (discipling) of the male figure, so that the cultural moral values, tradition, way of living, oral stories, and spiritual purpose which pertains to someone’s family (inheritance), may be preserved and also passed down to the future generation as an inheritance.
Jacob had twelve sons, and Yeshua whom the Christians refer to as Jesus also had twelve disciples.
The biblical method of structuring disciples:
In the biblical ancient days; the men (male) were commanded to go Jerusalem three times in a year, for the celebration of God’s holy feasts which takes place every year. (Exodus 23:17—Exodus 34:23 Three times in a year all your men -male shall appear before the Lord God of Israel).
This was done as a spiritual and religious practice that discipled the males (men) of each family, enabling and equipping their genetic sequence or genetic trait with God’s moral structure.
At their return from the celebration of God’s feasts in Jerusalem, the men (males) were obligated to share their experience via intimacy, oral teaching and the role of being moral fathers to their own families and wives.
In Genesis 2:23 it is written; God made the woman out of the rib of the man (Adam-male), and He brought her to the man. And Adam said;–by the declaration of Adam’s saying (Oral utterence); the woman’s role, name and spiritual purpose was imbued upon her….
“This is now the bones of my bones, the flesh of my flesh; She shall be called woman” because she was taken from the man…
Article written by Ap Ngabo Alex.