Love 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 separately or as a series. Jesus said that all of the Law and the Prophets hang on...

Look in the Mirror

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 separately or as a series. As we try to follow in the footsteps of Jesus, it’s essential...

Find Your Focus

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 separately or as a series.  God has something unique for each of us to contribute to his...

Love God

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 separately or as a series. Loving God is the bedrock of all of the rest of our faith — it’s...
A map for discipleship

A map for discipleship

If you actually want to get where you’re going, you need a map to help you navigate. Only a map can give you an indication of whether you’re getting closer to or further away from your goal. Without one, all of us are left wandering in circles. We have another free...

T4T in The Philippines

I got the letter below a while back from Dave White, who serves in Philippines. Training for Trainers (T4T) is really working well for us. I’ve made good progress in contextualizing, am having great results in my own personal use in church planting, have trained...

It takes a village

Jesus is the only one with all of the spiritual gifts. That’s why one-to-one discipleship often doesn’t work– at least not in isolation. The body of Christ corporately has all that a new believer needs to grow toward maturity. Do you remember the charts years...

Exercise: knowing, being, and doing

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...

Focused discipleship

This blog entry is part of a series of three that focuses on the three environments for making disciples: peer-to-peer discipleship, guided discipleship, and focused discipleship. Each of these represents a relational, intentional way to make disciples within our...