Discipleship is almost non-existent in American churches. It may be “offered” as an optional course in a church, but that massively misses the point. J.I. Packer used the word “catechesis” and Dallas Willard used formation, apprenticeship, and discipleship, but both were highlighting the same problem. Long-term, intentional, slow, holistic, spiritual formation has pretty much gone the way of the dodo bird.