Jesus calling

Jesus calling

I normally don’t like daily devotionals, but in our church gathering we’ve been working through one together and we’ve seen numbers of people who have been very helped by this book. Jesus Calling, by Sarah Young, consists of a series of very short, one-page thoughts,...
Exercise: knowing, being, and doing

Exercise: knowing, being, and doing

Here’s a great exercise I picked up from Dave DeVries. If you want to make not just disciples, but disciplemakers– people who can make other disciples– try this out with your team. Sit down together and brainstorm your own list in the following three...
Focused discipleship

Focused discipleship

This blog entry is part of a series of three that focuses on the three environments for making disciples: peer-to-peer discipleship, guided discipleship, and focused discipleship. Each of these represents a relational, intentional way to make disciples within our...
Guided discipleship

Guided discipleship

This blog entry is part of a series of three that focuses on the three environments for making disciples: peer-to-peer discipleship, guided discipleship, and focused discipleship. Each of these represents a relational, intentional way to make disciples within our...
Peer-to-peer discipleship

Peer-to-peer discipleship

This blog entry is part of a series of three that focuses on the three environments for making disciples: peer-to-peer discipleship, guided discipleship, and focused discipleship. Each of these represents a relational, intentional way to make disciples within our...
New research on discipleship

New research on discipleship

You might be interested to know that a new resource has come out. Eric Geiger, Michael Kelley, and Philip Nation have a new book called Transformational Discipleship: How people really grow. It consists of compilations of interviews with church leaders who focus on...