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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 ...

My mistake - I misread your statement “Christians are more than disciples” to mean “disciples are less than Christians”. (Now that WOULD have been an error, huh? But it’s not what you meant at all.)

Thank you for explaining, my friend, and please forgive my misunderstanding you.

Now I really must go. :-)