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Discipleship Is a Lifelong Journey

Discipleship is a lifelong journey because God is an inexhaustible God. We began by saying that God is the goal of discipleship. We must end by saying that, since we can never fully comprehend all that God is, we will never “arrive” this side of eternity. Even then, we will spend endless days drinking in the fountains of God’s beauty and glory.

God is where we’re going, and God is how we’re going to get there. Whether we are standing on the shore, just beginning our discipleship journey, or hoping to swim into the depths of Christian maturity, we want more. Not more than Jesus, but more of Jesus. We want more of him because he is not just good to us; most importantly, he is good for us.

Discipleship should be deep because God is inexhaustible. He invites his church into rich and deep fellowship because his goodness is indeed bottomless, and you can never exhaust the bottomless beauty of God. Along with Paul we proclaim, “Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!” (Rom. 11:33). The invitation to deep, holistic discipleship is first and foremost an invitation to see God for who he is, our highest good.