In the late 16th century, Johannes Kepler (1571 1630), a committed follower of Copernicus, assisted the great astronomer Tycho Brahe (1546 1601), who believed that the Earth is at rest.
But from the time Malcolm X began tutoring him in the teachings of Elijah Muhammad in 1962, he was a committed follower.
Last month Nofrat Frenkel, 28, an Israeli medical student and a committed follower of Conservative Judaism, a modern, egalitarian strain, was the first woman in Israel to be arrested during prayers at the Western Wall, also known as the Kotel, for publicly wrapping herself in a tallit.
Udayan, the younger and more adventurous of the brothers, becomes a committed follower of the revolutionary Naxalite movement in Calcutta, while the cautious and diligent Subhash leaves India to pursue graduate studies in Rhode Island.
On the one hand, an apostle is a committed follower, someone devoted to a cause; on the other hand, an apostle is a leader responsible for advancing that cause.
He also proselytized to fellow inmates, converting one young white man, who later became a committed follower.
Though an intensely committed follower of Jesus, his faith may have rested as much on the old basis as on the new.
It's a difficult record but the more committed follower will expect such experiments.
Without a broad number of committed followers, a leader can't get things done.
