This eBook will give you a clear year-by-year, step-by-step plan for you to pass down faith to your children, while allowing for flexibility to accommodate your family’s needs and rhythms.
God’s heart is that we know and experience the vastness of His love, both in its magnitude and in its complexity. Through the years theologians have referred to this complexity with a variety of expressions. For example, one tradition refers to them as the benevolent, beneficent, and complacent love of God. As disciples and in…
Dear Discipleship-first Friends, Our team wanted to reach all of India. 1.4 billion people. (Yes, billion, with a b). We were praying desperate prayers, asking God how to do that when I stumbled across a little book by Ying Kai. He and his wife started a disciple making movement in China that focused on mobilizing…
CREATING A DISCIPLE MAKING CULTURE What is culture? Culture is the water we swim in. It’s captured in the cartoon where one fish swims up to another fish in another part of the ocean and asks “How’s the water over here?” The second fish says, “What’s water?” In other words, culture is something we can…
This past Christmas, we enjoyed the company of my wife’s nephew and his family at our condo in Orlando. As I wrote in a previous article ( WHY? ), the three year old toddler Enzo offered some insights to the question “why.” A few weeks ago at Easter, they again joined us, this time at…
The Scoreboard What do you measure? What is the scoreboard you keep that defines Kingdom success? A church’s measures, or metrics, help them see when they are successful in accomplishing the church’s mission. Most churches track… attendance, baptisms, and offerings. I have a friend who says churches measure “The Three B’s” – buildings, bucks, butts…
Dear Discipleship-first Friends, Josh Howard recently joined our team at Discipleship.org. He has spent the last 10 years of his work in Southeast Asia, focused on coaching and equipping disciple making movements. Josh will be moving to Indianapolis and will be starting with us in August, so we wanted to take the next two newsletters…
Making disciples is at the heart of building a vibrant and impactful church community. Here’s a comprehensive approach on how to make disciples, from identifying the right individuals to fostering deep, and lasting relationships. Discover how intentional disciple-making can transform lives and strengthen every church’s foundation. 1. Select the right person. When you begin to…
Leadership within a ministry or church isn’t a monolithic concept; it’s a multifaceted structure with various levels, each carrying its own set of responsibilities. From self-leaders to organization leaders, the spectrum of leadership roles is diverse, each playing a vital part in the functioning and growth of the church. Understanding the distinct levels of leadership…
What problem or problems do you expect your discipleship pathway to solve? Pause and answer before continuing. Your answer is important because it will uncover your motivation and expectations about why you are building (or have built) one in the first place. Churches everywhere are working to build a discipleship pathway. It’s in style. And with that…
Dear Discipleship-first Friends. I turn 50 this year, which means that I have been in a conservative evangelical church for 50 years now. Around 10 years ago, I was first introduced to the idea of being a disciple of Jesus rather than simply being a cultural Christian. Over these last 10 years, I have been…
Stop me if you’ve heard this before: You’ve made an announcement about an event or communicated about a direction your church is going for weeks or even months, only to have someone stop you, seemingly upset, because they had “never heard anything about it” and felt left out! One of the challenges of being a…
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