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.
Spiritual responsiveness
Spiritual responsiveness describes how we choose to respond to the work of God in our lives. It involves actively listening and then taking action according to what we are hearing. God is present and at work in the world, drawing us closer to him. How we decide to...
Experiencing God
Experiencing God means intentionally and consistently engaging with God in such a way that you open yourself to deeper understanding of him and deeper relationship with him. We are to use our minds, our bodies, our souls, and our emotions to love him. He answered,...
Defining Discipleship: the starting point
Defining Discipleship If we are to assess ourselves accurately in the area of our discipleship, we need to know what standard we are measuring ourselves against. Just as an archer must know what the target looks like and where it is in order to hit it accurately, we...
Bridging to discipleship
As ministry leaders, we’re all aware of the importance of disciplemaking. We engage culture, and as people come to Christ we get them connected into faith communities. But as I coach a lot of ministry leaders who are seeking to be incarnational and missional, one of...
Discipling on the go
I am coaching a man named Phillip who is serving among the poor in Mexico City. He’s been struggling with finding time to invest in discipling relationships, partly because most of the people there are already working long hours just to support their families. One man...
What does it mean to be a disciple?
How would you define discipleship? How can you tell if someone is a disciple or not? Too often we make discipleship about knowledge. Discipleship is not about knowledge-- it’s about character, behavior, attitudes, a posture of humility and teachability. Knowledge may...
Some models for discipleship
A good model for discipleship needs to be a simple, reproducible method that helps guide a person toward becoming an obedient follower and disciplemaker. Whatever model you use, you must build in reproducibility. A few good models are outlined below: just choose one...
Live Generously
This blog post is part of a series of nine entries, each highlighting one of the nine Journey Guides. Each Journey Guide is a three-week discipleship study. They can be engaged in separately or as a series. Living generously is more than a matter of specific actions....
Serve Others
This blog post is part of a series of nine entries, each highlighting one of the nine Journey Guides. Each Journey Guide is a three-week discipleship study. They can be engaged in separately or as a series. Our service to others– both believers and unbelievers– is the...
Make Disciples
This blog post is part of a series of nine entries, each highlighting one of the nine Journey Guides. Each Journey Guide is a three-week discipleship study. They can be engaged in separately or as a series. As we live incarnationally and serve missionally, the...