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.
Discipleship as a jigsaw puzzle
Lately I’ve been thinking about discipleship. What has my own discipleship journey looked like? How has God discipled me? It’s usually not been very linear—more like a jigsaw puzzle. He’ll point something out over here and I work on that for a while. Then something...
Webinar: Nonlinear Discipleship
Are you feeling stuck in your discipleship methods? Do you feel like what you’re trying just doesn’t seem to be producing the results you’d hoped for? I’ve got a new webinar coming up that’s geared toward helping find a new approach—nonlinear discipleship. During this...
Real-Life Discipleship
I recently picked up a copy of Real-Life Discipleship by Jim Putman and was glad to see all of the practical help for making discipleship work in everyday churches. While he lays out the specifics of how his own church practices disciplemaking, he doesn’t stipulate...
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...
The Map
Most of you are familiar with the host site for my blog, www.loganleadership.com. But you may be less familiar with one of Logan Leadership’s sister sites: www.journeytogethernow.com. The main focus of that site is on discipleship. There I’ve created a map for...
What is an apprentice?
I just ran across an important thought from Hugh Halter’s new book, Sacrilege: Finding Life in the Unorthodox Ways of Jesus: Here's how you can know if you are actually an apprentice: people respond to you like they did to Jesus people are drawn to you people seek you...
New resources available
You may remember that a while back I launched Journey Together Now, a new website for lay leaders. The site includes a “map” of the 9 foosteps of Jesus that people in discipling relationships can work through together on their spiritual journeys. Now Journey Guides...
Finally a site for your lay people… Journey Together Now!
We at Logan Leadership have put together a new website as a service to those wanting to live more incarnationally and missionally. If you want a site that empowers your people to help each other along that journey, you’ve been looking for Journey Together Now. This...
Building A Discipling Culture
Yesterday, we heard from Brian Williamson. The book he's been using in his ministry is called Building a Discipling Culture. One of the really helpful things in this book is the quadrant it provides for exploring the invitation-challenge model. In the context of...