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…
Discipleship. Now, there’s a word for you! Would I like to be one of Jesus’ disciples? For sure! Who wouldn’t? To be with Him every day, to talk with Him, to share meals together, to see Him perform miracles, to hear His teachings and His prayers, to see His way with people, to listen to…
Relational Truth John and I had met at church and began spending time together. Through time and proximity, we began to build the foundation of a lasting relationship. We had planned to meet up for lunch one day and everything was going as usual. Our conversation bounced around from family, to work, to sports,…
My wife, Karen, and I have a small decorative pillow in our living room embroidered with the words of Thomas Jefferson, “Grandchildren furnish me great resources of happiness.” It’s true, our 12 grandchildren and 2 great grandchildren are one of the great joys of our lives. When people ask how we grew our family so…
An autobiographical poem was discovered among the belongings of a young pastor in Zimbabwe. The pastor had been martyred for his faith in Christ. The poem is aptly titled, “Fellowship of the Unashamed.” Here are the pastor’s words: “I’m part of the fellowship of the unashamed. The die has been cast. I have stepped over the line….
I had the privilege of writing the foreword for an important new book by Curt Erskine, “Recreated to be Like God: Making Disciples in the Image of Jesus”. It is clarifying in our theology of making disciples that will bless your ministry. Foreword Why should the local church focus on disciple making? I am…
Ever since I was a little girl, I have been fascinated with the resilience of plants. I marvel at a tiny sprout growing out of a tree stump that appears dead, at least on the surface, or in the middle of a paved road. The way weeds just never seem to go away no matter…
I’ve never been much of a people person. I have always described myself as a loner girl, an introvert, socially awkward, the quiet type, the person that turns the complete opposite way when I see someone walking toward me to avoid any human interaction at all costs. I used those examples to describe myself for…
In Recreated to Be like God, Curt Erskine explains how God originally created humanity to be His image bearers. However, after the fall, our ability to function as the image of God was ruined. We must be restored to our original design. Scripture also teaches that Jesus alone is the perfect image of God. If we will imitate and obey Jesus as His disciples, then we will be conformed into the image of God that we were originally created to be. The practice of conforming disciples into God’s image is vital to the church. Read Erskine’s book to learn how to live out this practice in your life as a disciple maker.
My mind wandered. We sat stuck, horns blaring around us as traffic ground to halt. I wiped sweat from my brow and the diesel fumes were beginning to make my eyes burn. This was not the first time I had experienced this since it was my 16th trip visiting my friends and churches in East Africa….
Nobody likes criticism, not even pastors. Having been a pastor for more than three decades I have come to a few conclusions regarding how to give helpful and effective criticism. Many church members are not very good at providing their pastor with constructive feedback, and most pastors are not very good at receiving criticism from…
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