"Either the students were lying to [Baird], or he was lying to me". In August, the BCC held its "World Missions Contribution". The elders encouraged disciples to give 20 times their regular weekly donation for this contribution.
He had never been a tyrannical master; he had encouraged his disciples to go farther than himself and to contradict him if need be.
His professed adherence to Epicureanism, a philosophy that encouraged its disciples to maintain a distance from active politics, may have played a role in his stance.
This is a credo I learned from the Slow Food movement, which encourages its disciples to follow the food chain out of the kitchen and into the countryside.
Many of the popular new pastors claim the gift of prophecy and teach a "gospel of prosperity", which encourages their disciples to pay a tithe (10% of their income) to the church in return for even greater riches from God.The pastors' wealth raises eyebrows.
Many years later when Gandhi began encouraging his disciples to work as sanitation officers and scavengers in villages, his diligent secretary and diarist Madhav Desai noted the attitudes of villagers.
Following the path of holistic medicine, on the footsteps of Hippocrates, who encouraged his disciples to focus their attention more on "what kind of person has a disease than to know what kind of disease a person has" [1], the human being has reached the goal of a molecular knowledge of itself, revealing the secrets of the genome, through the Human Genome Project completed in 2003.
In 1987, he became a member of Les Merveilles de Guinea, founded the year before by Kemoko Sano, who encouraged his young disciple to train seriously in the kind of traditional West African music and dance the group performed.
It was a triumph for Void, if not for Hell, who wished to neither discourage his disciple (who is also his publisher) nor encourage him too much.
To say George Balanchine encouraged his associates and disciples in City Ballet to choreograph to Stravinsky is an understatement.
