Discipleship

I am kind of lost when it comes to discipleship. One thing that I have noticed is that the Emergent Church is based on the idea of discipleship. I have grown up in church where we have put a major enfaces on evangelism, but never really on what we should do after accepting Jesus into our lives.
Matthew 28:16-20:
Then the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go. When they saw him, they worshiped him; but some doubted. Then Jesus came to them and said, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age."

In Matthew 28:19 Jesus tells us to make disciples, Baptize them in the name of the father, son, and Holy Spirit, and to teach them to obey his commands. The only thing that we haven’t really done is what Christ told us to do first, make disciples. I believe we have lost a lot of people because we have not made disciples. Now how would the emergent church really tie into all this? Reading from Dan Kimball’s blog I realized that we have lost the idea of what discipleship is and what it leads to. Discipleship (emergent perspective) is building relationships with the people around you, Christian or non-Christian, and sharing the love of Christ through everyday life experiences. Here is a quote from Dan Kimball’s Blog kind of dealing with this idea, “The irony is that we are on a mission for Jesus, but the more older and mature we become as Christians (and hopefully wiser), the less non-Christians then get to see and experience Jesus in us. I am talking about actual relationships and friendships where trust and dialogue are built with people who get to know us personally, not just street witnessing type of a thing to strangers.”
This really made me start thinking that discipleship is not just for people who are Christians it’s for non-believers. “Discipleship leads to evangelism” (Kirk House). If we hang out with our friends and they see the love of Christ and experience true discipleship, it will lead to them having a relationship with Christ. Discipleship is us loving like Christ loved, sharing life like Christ did, being obedient like Christ was obedient, and serving others as Christ did. We bring this all back to Christ. He is the foundation of discipleship.
Discipleship is a continual process until we die. Discipleship is key to everything that we do.