But if one of you suffers for being a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God in this matter.
One of the most significant facts in the New Testament is that the name "disciple" which was everywhere applied to Jesus' followers throughout the Gospels and Acts, absolutely disappears from the New Testament from Acts to Revelation!  The apostle John used the expression "disciples" some 77 times in his gospel, but never once in the three short epistles that bear his name, nor in the book of Revelation.