Consumers want programs. . . . But nowhere in the Epistles do you find the apostolic writers urging the church to develop programs. Instead all the teaching is about a way of life, and that way of life is taught and caught in the church as it sees itself as the continuation of God’s story in the world. For example, in the spirit of Paul calling us to be imitators of Christ daily, one might ask, “Who am I discipling? Who is discipling me? Am I a disciple of Jesus Christ?”
-Robert E. Webber, The Divine Embrace: Recovering the Passionate Spiritual Life (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 2006), 228.