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I've got to go for a while, but wanted quickly to let the Scriptures correct a couple things you said:

Christians are more than disciples...We are not ‘following’ to some future destination where Salvation will then be obtained.

Christians are exactly the same as disciples:

"the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch."

"Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you"

"It is enough for the disciple that he be as his teacher, and the servant as his lord."

"Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man would come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me."

You are not 'allowing the scriptures to correct something', for I have not made an error in my little essays to you and readers. We are disciples, but we are more than just disciples, we are family members. I wrote that we are more than. I did not write that were are instead ...

The post you are continuing to ignore further back in this exchanges was going to go into the people to whom Jesus addresses His words, and their point in the temporal arrangement divided by the cross. When Jesus was preaching the Kingdom arrived, He was preaching tot he Jews, bringing the Kingdom to the Jews, as He graphically illustrated with the woman who came begging for the healing of her daughter. when Jesus addressed His Disciples after His resurrection and before His ascension He gave them as members of His family a family command.

And the power to accomplish that He Promises would arrive 'not many days hence' (at Pentecost). When Jesus addressed Saul on the Road to Damascus, the Gospel was being preached by family members and Saul was persecuting the family. Jesus told Saul it is hard to keep kicking against the prickings of the Gospel preached. When Saul got born from Above, He took up the family business ...