This national study was completed by a partnership between Discipleship.org and Exponential. The study was designed to identify the disciple making culture of a church – including the level of churches that reproduce disciples in their culture (level 4) and the percentage of churches that multiply disciples in their culture (Level 5) in the United…
My good brother and mentor, B.J. Weber, led New York Fellowship for over 40 years, discipling men from all walks of life – from Wall Street barons to homeless people barely surviving. He was always saying, “We as the church, Christ’s body in the world, have to be an attraction for the gospel before promoting the…
A number of years ago Willow Creek posted the results of their massive internal research – the Reveal study. It showed that the approach that had been the panacea of approaches to church – the program-based attractional church model, was severely flawed. The promise was that building attractive programs to draw people to attending the…
Most church staff have been trained for ministry with a single formula that is guaranteed to create pain and ultimately fail. My training included a process of assured destruction only to see it play out. Then I’d rinse and repeat it over and over again. What is this magic formula? Just this: When we have…
If I invite someone over to my house they typically come to the front door. That door represents the entry way into my home – the primary path that a first-time visitor will usually take. In the same way that homes need entry ways, churches need “doors.” Churches need places where new people can enter….
Churches have reputations! Some have a reputation for being the “teaching” church, some for being the “praying” church, and others have a reputation for being the “worship” or “fellowship” church. Every church has a reputation, and the hope is that all churches would have a reputation for being disciple making churches. Think about it. If…
The role of the Senior Minister/Pastor is the most significant role of all in creating a disciple making church. I do not like making absolute statements, but I am going to make an important one. First, a little background on my statement. I have worked with many national disciple making groups, I have talked to…
Last week we introduced the five myths that are stalling disciple-making movements. This week we look at the first myth. The Engagement Myth: ACTIVITY = TRANSFORMATION How does your church measure success? Every church measures some form of activity. How many people attended worship, how many people are serving, how many are attending a group or…
Dr. Bryan F. Hurlbutt’s e-book, “Cohort”, introduces the disciple-making strategy of using cohorts that are “intensive, structured and gender based.” Dr. Hurlbutt defines the cohort approach (biblically and practically), by explaining the character of the groups, the “four buckets” of curriculum that are drawn from, and what cohort leadership entails. There are a few things…
There are 1400 Disciple Making Movements around the world and they include 1% of the current world population. We will explore models that are currently being adopted in North America that utilize the principles of Disciple Making Movements. In particular, we will pursue what it means to develop churches with a combination of a traditional…
A weekend crowd is not necessarily a church. You can have a crowd of people showing up for service every weekend with great worship and teaching, but that crowd may not be fulfilling the function and mission of the Church. You need to be able to connect the people in the crowd to your community in order…
Have you heard the classic debate about weekend worship services? People in ministry like to argue about whether the Church is “all about the weekend” or not. If you are new to the discussion, there are some churches that put all their eggs in the “worship service basket.” The weekend worship service in many ways…
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