To expand his membership, Mr. Groeschel early last year stopped promising "ministers" that the only path to riches lay in recruiting new disciples.

For Christians throughout the world, it is the biblical sea on which Jesus walked, whose waves he calmed, on whose banks he preached and performed miracles, from whose fishermen he recruited disciples.

Disciple: At this stage, individuals enroll in the School of Leaders, which will begin to train the believer to recruit new disciples.

They published advertisements for meetings, where they recruited disciples, whom they called "crew".

Ms. Grosskurth alludes to the religious nature of psychoanalysis when she says that "Freud described himself as a man of sorrows" with a cross to bear, and when she discusses his attempt to recruit disciples who would keep the faith, no matter how much they disliked one another.

Every day, Minh recruited more disciples for his cult.

He later reveals to the female Nagisa that he too in on a quest to recruit disciples for a failing martial arts school, and is meeting with a similar lack of success.

Ip Man is set in the 1930s in Foshan, a hub of Southern Chinese martial arts, where various schools actively recruit disciples and compete against each other.

The New Look of the Klan Inspired by David Duke's example, the Ku Klux Klan is recruiting savvy, clean-cut-looking disciples conveying a sanitized message.