Disciple (Christianity)

===Family and wealth===
{{See also|Evangelical counsels}}
Jesus called on disciples to give up their wealth and their familial ties. In his society, family was the individual's source of identity, so renouncing it would mean becoming virtually nobody. In {{bibleverse||Luke|9:58-62}}, Jesus used a [[hyperbole|hyperbolic]] metaphor to stress the importance of this, and another in {{bibleverse|Luke|14:26}}: "''If anyone comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters—yes, even their own life—such a person cannot be my disciple.''" There are different interpretations of this text on [[counting the cost]] of discipleship.<ref>[https://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_decree_19651118_apostolicam-actuositatem_en.html Decree on the Apostolate of the Laity: Chapter I] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150625142206/https://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_decree_19651118_apostolicam-actuositatem_en.html |date=June 25, 2015 }}, Vatican Council</ref>