One of my life long goals is to learn something new every day. I am an information hound who enjoys books, documentaries and museums. But knowing things and gaining information is not the be all end all of the Christian life. Information does play its role, but that is not all that Jesus asked of us in the great commission. He asked for us to make disciples and to teach them and to baptize them.
Discipleship cannot be fully understood outside of the Jewish culture and the ultimate rabbi, Jesus. Jesus called men to follow him in all that he did and to dedicate their lives to imitating him. There were times of formal learning but there were many more times of informal (relational) learning. Discipleship in this sense requires proximity more than information.
After all, our goal in making disciples is not smart people, but changed people. As we follow Christ, may we lead others to imitate Jesus just as the disciples did.
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