Talk:disciple

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Obsolete

Next to the word disciple (as a verb) we have "obsolete" marked. This puzzles me. I am a Lutheran pastor who uses this word as a verb several times a month in my sermons and Sunday School lessons. I imagine most Christian pastors would do the same. Can we remove this "obsolete?" L. Thomas W. (talk) 15:59, 8 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

In five decades of attending church in California pretty much every week, I've never heard it used as a verb- so it's not as universal as you think. I suspect that the sense you use is derived from the noun, but the obsolete sense is the source of the noun- it just means teach or instruct. Unless your usage could include discipling someone in trigonometry or English- without reference to someone being or acting as a disciple- it's probably a different sense that needs to be added, not the obsolete version preserved from olden days. Chuck Entz (talk) 09:16, 9 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
 Done Adding it now. Equinox ◑ 16:51, 27 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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