Discipleship
See Lives Transformed
Why did you go into ministry in the first place? Most likely you wanted to make disciples, see lives changed, see the Kingdom of God advanced. You wanted to see transformation.
Churches and ministries only grow as well as the disciples they develop. It’s time to go back to the basics with a focus on discipleship. We can help you create a simple, relational, yet focused system that can help you get traction for making disciples at all levels.
The Unfairness of Ministry
Much of ministry can feel unfair. People who don't understand the weight of ministry put unfair expectations on you, don't respect your time as your own, feel the right to speak into how you raise your kids. In the midst of difficult ministry seasons, it's tempting to...
3 Kinds of Calling
If you’re a Christian leader, you’ve probably found one of the most common questions people come to you with—especially younger people—is that of calling. What is my calling? What is God’s will for my life? How can I tell what God wants me specifically to do? These...
A Natural Flow for Outreach
A key ingredient in your mission for your church is outreach. You share the gospel to save souls and because it is what Jesus asked you to do in the Great Commission. But these days, outreach is getting harder. What worked in the past is no longer effective. Within...
Experiencing God for… Skeptics?
Is there room for skeptics in your congregation? Thomas (the disciple) gets a bad rap to this day and to be called a “Doubting Thomas” is considered an insult. Yet if you look at it from a learning styles standpoint, you will recognize that a great deal of the world...
What is the point of Christian Community?
Across the nation there are thousands of churches that are only remnants of what they once were. Maybe your church is one of them… or will be one day. The faithful few who are left in these communities have something special—each other. They are tight-knit groups, who...
Six Steps to Make and Multiply Disciples
What is your mission statement? It may be worded differently or expressed differently or put forth with a unique emphasis, but the basic mission of any Christian church is always the same: to make disciples. After all, that’s what Jesus left us to do: Then Jesus came...
Transforming prayer in your church
Have you ever felt uncomfortable praying? It’s pretty common. That can show itself in hesitance to pray aloud in a small group or even the fear of praying “wrong” in private prayer. Many people feel there is a code to prayer that they have not been able to break. As...
The tension between grace and obedience
Having experienced the grace and mercy of God, you in turn want to obey God and live within biblical instruction for you trust that God’s plan is good. Hidden in that statement is a tension between grace and obedience. It is by grace you were saved, now go and obey....
Is church feeling dry? Here’s what’s missing…
Sometimes it feels like your people know all the right answers, but are having none of the right experiences. What can you do about that? Although you can’t force it, you can help reorient them to focus on the right things. If they get more intentional about becoming...
What does healthy discipleship look like to you?
Spring is all about planting seeds. Even though most of us don’t live in farming communities, many of us still plant seeds in the spring. We plan ahead, envisioning what we want summer to look like, and taking steps to make that a reality. Yet it’s not really us who...