Honestly, I never thought about purposeful discipleship until I started the institute and I’ve done church all my life. I actually used to think it was super weird when I heard believers refer to others as “their disciples.” Now I understand disciple-making to be a nonnegotiable imperative of the Christian walk. I used to think baptism was the end goal of sharing the Gospel, but now understand it as really step 1 and there’s more work to be done. New and old believers all need to be discipled, which means we need believers who know how to disciple.