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Do something
Someone once criticized D.L. Moody for his evangelism methods. His response: “I like my way of doing evangelism better than your way of not doing evangelism.” It’s like that with discipleship too. Sometimes we multiply so many options that we don’t do anything at all....
Making discipleship doable
Jesus said to make disciples—that’s a command for all believers. Therefore, whatever we do to make disciples needs to be doable by everyone. Let’s not make it complicated. Keep it simple and reproducible so that everyone can do it and everyone can teach others to do...
7 keys to the healing of personal woundedness
Transfer of identity: We must be made to see our value in the redeeming work of Christ. Building bridges: Safe relationships where mutual transparency and unconditional love are practiced. Challenge: Stimulating one another to actively confront issues of woundedness...
Sorting the soils
In many of the times I address groups of church leaders, I recommend that they invest at least 20% of their time in sponsoring and supporting missional ministries and pilot projects. If leaders agree to do that, the most common question then is how—how do you start?...
Parallel paths
As I’ve been thinking lately about the whole stretch of road between living incarnationally as individuals and leading a multiplying movement of churches, I’ve tried to identify all the steps along the way and how they fit together. So far I’ve come up with four...
The gospel changes everything
For many years in recent history the church has focused on spiritual transformation. Rightly so—for this is what the Holy Spirit brings to us. Yet a piece seemed to be missing. Where was the relationship? The community? The love? Then the church began placing more...
The ministry power of the wounded
The Bible is full of stories of the wounded and how God works through them. Some make entirely unlikely heroes. Rahab was a prostitute in Jericho, but because she saw what the Lord was doing was willing to submit to it, she became a biblical example of faith and the...
A little St. Paddy’s day reading
The Celtic Way of Evangelism by George Hunter III. A great example of how current missional thinking was applied over 1500 years ago, this engaging historical narrative of the Celtic movement of Christianity provides an historical model of evangelism for us to...
What’s your part?
No, we can't do everything. We can’t exhibit a response to every one of the world’s problems. The key question is: how do you focus in on the most important ministry for your life? How do you discover that passion? What are you skilled and gifted to do? What is that...
Ministry ideas to consider
Just to get your idea juices flowing here are number of existing ministries that believers can readily take part in. The structures are already there in most communities—they just need volunteers. There are as many opportunities for compassion as there are human...
I feel your pain
Steve Sjogren says the first step to getting your church involved in meeting community needs is to begin asking the Lord to show you the pain of your community: "Ask the Lord for the gift of knowing and identifying your community’s pain. Every city is unique in its...
Church on a mission
An outstanding example of a church deeply committed to meeting the many needs of its community is Lawndale Community Church of Chicago’s inner city. Their statement of mission reads: "We seek to bring Christian holistic revitalization to the environment of the...