"Christ isn't merely a person. He is a road too. And the person who believes him takes the same road he took. There is no Christology without Christopraxis, no knowledge of Christ without the practice of Christ.
We cannot grasp Christ merely with our heads or our hearts. We come to understand him through a total, all embracing practice of living; and that means discipleship.
Anabaptist Hans Denk put it by saying: 'No one is able verily to know Christ except he follow him in life.'
Discipleship is the holistic knowledge of Christ, and for the people involved it has a cognitive as well as an ethical relevance: it means knowing and doing – both." (page 47)
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