Hello, my name is Johnny Arnavannis and this is Dialin.

In this episode, I sit down with Paul Washer and ask him about the importance of discipleship.

We all may know that there is an importance in reading our Bibles or attending a church,

but in scripture, there is an emphasis on discipleship.

And in this episode, we're going to talk about what that actually means and why it's so important.

Let's dial in.

Paul, thank you for sitting down. I wanted to ask you an important question.

Many people regarding just their

spiritual life understand that they need to be in the Word of God, need to be committed to a local

church. But I want you to speak to the importance and vitality of having a discipleship relationship.

If it's a younger man, there's an older, godly man in his life

that actually observes him, that challenges him.

And this young man gets to watch this older man live as a dad, as a husband,

speak to that importance.

Okay, well, first of all, back when I became a Christian, and even prior to that, the 70s and the 80s,

there was a lot about one-on-one discipleship.

Everything was one-on-one discipleship and the multiplication of disciples.

But as I look back on that, one of the reasons for the emphasis on personal discipleship was that the pulpits were so weak.

So we need to have one-on-one discipleship, but it's not going to function unless we have expositors in the pulpit.

So it's not a replacement.

It's something that goes along with it, and it is extremely important.

And so I don't want young people just to kind of get together with one person.

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