Being a Disciple means what?

Rob Bell spoke at Promise Keeper's last night (via video from http://www.nooma.com/) about what it means to be a disciple.

It really struck me because he spoke of the story of how the disciples were out on a boat in a storm when they saw an image of someone walking on water. After realizing it was Jesus, Peter got out of the boat and walked on water himself! Then, he began to sink, and here comes the interesting part. When Peter began to sink he said, "Jesus, help me!" Jesus replied back to him, "You of little faith, why did you doubt?"

What Rob suggests is that when Jesus says that, he is not referring to Peter's faith in Jesus, but Peter's belief that he can actually do what Jesus does. You see, back in the Jewish culture of that time, when you were called to be a "disciple" by a rabbi, it meant that the rabbi believed that you had what it takes to be like the rabbi or to do what the rabbi did. So, when Peter to that step out onto the water and actually didn't sink, he was being like Jesus. When he began to sink, he was starting to doubt in himself rather than lacking faith in Jesus - in fact, he actually called out to Jesus to save him showing faith in Jesus (and doubting himself).

As we are called to be Jesus' disciples and we go about our daily walk and struggle with faith, I would suggest that at times when our faith is weak - it's not always that we lack faith that God can do things but that we can actually be like Jesus and do what Jesus did. A lot of the time, we don't believe that we can actually do what Jesus did through our faith in Him.

I would be curious about your thoughts and opinions on this. Go ahead and respond through your comments.