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.
Active Discipleship
Sometimes there is a tension between discipleship and disciplemaking. You might feel like you have to choose between them. Some think focusing first on spiritual growth equips people to better serve and share the gospel. In actuality, the two are inseparable. Outreach...
A Different Kind of Coaching
You can find someone marketing themselves as a coach on just about any topic. If you do what they tell you to do, they guarantee success. But what if you can’t? What if it doesn’t fit with your personality or circumstances? Like David in Saul’s armor, the system won’t...
Remember who you are
In a world where identity is everything, how can we remember who we are? You’ve probably seen the scene in The Lion King when The spirit of his father Mufasa returned and told Simba “Remember who you are.” It’s powerful because our internal identity must then be...
Our Top Blog Posts in 2024 (and what that says about you)
One way we measure our effectiveness is through the engagement we get with the blog posts we send you. The following are the blog posts that caught your attention—and why we think they did. #1 Arrested Spiritual Development This was the top opened blog post of the...
Facilitating Faith
How do you know when someone in your congregation is struggling with their faith? What signals you that someone is ready to take a leap of faith? Often the answer is when they tell you. The trouble is people often wait to share those things until it is critical and...
What no longer works—and what does
You are already living in the post-Christian era in the United States. It seems like it happened fast but you've likely been feeling the effects for a while. You know the love and peace of being reconciled to God through Jesus Christ but when you share what you know...
The new era of ministry cooperation
Have you ever considered how often we have come to view churches as like sports teams? Not in the cooperation sense but the competitive sense. We have “our” team that we root for. We identify with their brand, wear their colors, and root for them to win against the...
What does it mean to be a disciple of Jesus?
How do you define discipleship? While the script is pretty standard from a church marketing perspective, the actions associated with being a follower of Jesus can vary from church attendance to political association and everywhere in between. Growing disciples...
Investing in disciplemakers
How do you get people in the church to be disciplemakers instead of Christian consumers? That’s a great question, and if you’re in pastoral ministry, you’ve probably been asking it in one way or another. You don’t want people in your congregation to be consumers of...
The BEST way to combat polarization
Are you passionate this election season. Justifiably so. No matter how you look at it, there is a lot at stake. And your people know it. They may know where you stand because you let it be known in conversations, on social media, maybe even from the pulpit. It's...