Missionary vs Disciple - What's the difference?
missionary | disciple |
One who is sent on a mission.
A person who travels attempting to spread a religion or a creed.
(pejorative) A religious messenger.
(uncountable) A common position for undertaking sexual intercourse.
A person who learns from another, especially one who then teaches others.
An active follower or adherent of someone, or some philosophy etc.
* Holy Bible, Matthew 9:10 (King James Version)
* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
, chapter=4, title= (Ireland) Miserable-looking creature of a man.
(obsolete) To train, educate, teach.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , IV.i:
As nouns the difference between missionary and disciple
is that missionary is one who is sent on a mission while disciple is a person who learns from another, especially one who then teaches others.As a verb disciple is
to train, educate, teach.missionary
English
Noun
(missionaries)- A Muslim missionary was just trying to convert me to Islam .
See also
* (wikipedia "missionary") *disciple
English
Noun
(en noun)- And it came to pass, as Jesus sat at meat in the house, behold, many publicans and sinners came and sat down with him and his disciples .
A Cuckoo in the Nest, passage=By some paradoxical evolution rancour and intolerance have been established in the vanguard of primitive Christianity. Mrs. Spoker, in common with many of the stricter disciples of righteousness, was as inclement in demeanour as she was cadaverous in aspect.}}
Synonyms
* studentSee also
* apostleVerb
(discipl)- fraile youth is oft to follie led, / Through false allurement of that pleasing baite, / That better were in vertues discipled [...].