"A disciple is not above his teacher, but everyone who is perfectly trained will be like his teacher." (Luke 6:40)

Someone was talking to a scholar about a young man. He said, "So and so tells me that he was one of your students." The teacher answered devastatingly, "He may have attended my lectures, but he was not one of my students."

There is a world of difference between attending lectures and being a student. One of the supreme handicaps of the Lord's church today is that there are many distant followers of Jesus and too few real disciples.