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Discipline and Discipleship

The Latin root of discipline is disciplina meaning teaching or instruction, but disciplina is derived from the Latin word discipulus which gives us the English word disciple. You cannot arrive at disciplina without discipulus, just as you cannot be a disciple without discipline. Let me try to explain myself in English. In college, I lived a pretty strict life of discipline. As a division one swimmer, most of my decisions came back to the question of what would make me faster in the pool. What

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