So long before people were designated Christians, we find them being called followers of the way. And what I mean by that is in chapter 9 of Acts it says, then Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest and asked letters from him to the synagogues of Damascus, so that if he found any who were of the way, whether men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem. And what we see in these two verses is that the word disciple and those who were of the way are really synonymous. Those two things go together. If you're a disciple, you're a follower of the way.

You're actually on a path. There's a journey. It wasn't just a moment in time. And I think what we've done is we've glorified and we've exalted the moment that someone becomes a Christian and sometimes just say that's all that matters. But what the Bible talks about is there's a way, there's a discipleship, there's a path that we ought to be on, a way that we ought to live in light of who Christ is and what He's done for us.