I was working with a group recently on the topic of discipleship. The question at hand was, “What makes a disciple-making disciple? What qualities or behaviors are we trying to develop?” I shared my new “tree of discipleship” approach as one option. As the...
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...
The Kingdom of God is truly both/and. There are twin dangers: If we get so focused on the spiritual that we ignore temporal needs, we’re not living like Jesus did, and so no wonder people are critical. On other hand, we can’t forget the very last thing Jesus told us...
