The local church in America is realizing she needs Jesus-style disciple making. Leaders know they are in trouble without it. Jesus commanded it. And everyday Christians are increasingly expressing their need for it. There already exists an unorganized group of men and women committed to this focus in America. They bleed for the cause of…
By Alex Absalom — www.dandelionresourcing.com Meet Molly! She is our 3 years old chocolate Labrador. Molly’s world is centered on a busy, noisy family — Hannah and myself, our 3 teenage sons, an assorted range of their pimply friends, increasing numbers of well-groomed long-haired girls, along with neighbors, members of our missional community, people from…
A Simple Discipleship Principle You Can Implement Immediately by Robby Gallaty Volumes could be written about the discipleship principles Jesus employed. But here is one principle you can implement immediately. Dependence upon the Father Jesus’ devotion to the Father came, in part, through his consistent prayer and his teaching others to pray. Jesus prayed that…
by Jim Putman Many know me as one who cares very much about discipleship and they would be right. But after several years of training churches and speaking about discipleship, I realized that I have somehow missed emphasizing a point. Jesus’ method was based upon relationships. But Jesus did not use relationship to make disciples…
Content channels moderated by field experts will aggregate high-quality thought leadership specifically geared to church planters This week, Exponential debuts a new website strategy, bringing together quality thought leadership from respected partner ministries known in their field—experts Exponential is calling Channel Curators. Links to the different channels including Church Planting, Culture, Discipleship, Leadership, Missional, MultiEthnic,…
By Shad Berry At Downline Ministries, we define discipleship the way Paul defined it in his letter to the Thessalonians, as “truth and life transference in the context of authentic relationship” (I Thess. 2:8). Truth and life transference in the context of authentic relationship. That’s Downline’s mission, hope, and its reason for being. Our hope…
By Bill Hull Heretics One and All We call ourselves The Bonhoeffer Project in honor of Bonhoeffer’s masterwork, The Cost of Discipleship, and his life as a testament to the fidelity of his faith, a faith that embraced discipleship. He was also a heretic, not in the classical sense, but one who had the courage…
We are grateful for the opportunity to begin our Discipleship Learning Community with the first webinar this week (Thursday) to introduce the discipleship concepts to be explored and Randy Pope’s book, InSourcing. Even if you aren’t available this week there’s still time to register to join us in January in Atlanta for two days at…
Conversion, as Scripture shows, is not just about Jesus’ cross, even though the cross is central. It is the invitation of the gospel to come to Jesus for both salvation and discipleship. The New Testament teaches us that conversion is an invitation to come to Jesus by faith in his cross and a willingness to…
Excerpt from the book Dedicated: Training Your Children to Trust and Follow Jesus By Bobby Harrington Almost every in-depth analysis of the state of discipleship in the church today points to the supreme need for people to get into the Word of God and apply it to their lives. Recently, the Willow Creek Association, one…
Discipleship.org was created to pour fuel on authentic discipleship by championing Jesus’ way of making disciples. We were honored to convene a meeting with fifteen national leaders at the end of January, led by Discipleship.org’s Bobby Harrington, and including Jim Putman, Robby Gallaty, Bill Hull, Todd Wilson, Doug Nuenke, Gabe Lyons, Pat Morley, Dann Spader,…
By Dallas Willard How the disciple lives naturally comes out of who the disciple is. As Jesus’ disciple, I am his apprentice in kingdom living. I am learning from him how to lead my life in the Kingdom of the Heavens as he would lead my life if he were I. It is my faith…
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