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...
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...
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...
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...
I received this text recently from my friend and colleague Gary Reinecke: “Quick note to tell you how helpful the Journey Together Now pathway has been with the church planters I am coaching. The genius is in the simplicity, conceptual road-map and coach-friendly...
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...
I recently read Exponential by Dave and Jon Ferguson. They talk about the 5-step model of Jesus, which I’ve used for years, but they did make one very helpful addition to it. They insert “we talk” between each of the original steps: I do, you watch, we talk. I...
Often why the discipleship process doesn’t multiply is because we leave it all up to one person. If one person disciples one other person, then that person disciples one other person… and so on. The assumption is that one person can bring another person to maturity...
I recently ran across a really committed 12-step guy, who also really gets discipleship. He’s been very successful in life-on-life multiplication of disciples. As I talked with him, he expressed strong concern against doing anything structured. Here was my basic...
