discipling

Verb

disciple (third-person singular simple present disciples, present participle discipling, simple past and past participle discipled)

1. (transitive) To convert (a person) into a disciple.
2. (transitive) To train, educate, teach.
   • fraile youth is oft to follie led, / Through false allurement of that pleasing baite, / That better were in vertues discipled […]1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
   1. (transitive, certain denominations) To routinely counsel (one's peer or junior) one-on-one in their discipleship of Christ, as a fellow affirmed disciple.
      • Most recently, messengers to the 2025 SBC Annual Meeting passed the resolution On Restoring Moral Clarity through God’s Design for Gender, Marriage, and the Family, which resolves among many beliefs that “we encourage churches to disciple their members in a biblical view of marriage, sexuality...2026 February 18, Diana Chandler, “Church of England abandons pursuit of spiritual blessings for same-sex couples”, in mbcpathway.com

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