Dear Discipleship-first Friends, Intentionality is an important word. It is the single most important word if you want to truly understand disciple making churches and disciple making movements. The Oxford English Dictionary describes intentionality as “the fact of being deliberate or purposive” (yes, purposive is a word!). The concept behind this word means that disciple…
Not long ago I hugged my kids goodbye, stepped onto an airplane and into a faraway hotel to participate in five days of leadership training. It didn’t start there. Nine months earlier, I was invited to apply to a year-long leadership development opportunity. Not long after, I was selected from a pool of applicants to…
Pastors are leading their churches somewhere. The question is, are they leading toward the mission of Jesus? The goal is for pastors to lead their churches toward the mission of Jesus rather than away from it. To be sure that is happening, consider a few questions. Do You Know Your Mission? You’ll never hit the…
As pastors and church leaders, the emphasis on your role typically centers around preparing sermons, hospital visits, leadership meetings and more. In today’s North American church, the idea of “shepherding the flock” has been translated to caring for the many. While the crowds need care and attention, if that becomes their only focus it can…
Dear Discipleship-First Friends, As someone who cares about making disciples we want to make sure you are aware of our podcast. Over 660,000 episodes have been downloaded over the last few years and it is growing faster than ever! “The Disciple Maker’s Podcast” is a place to hear from expert disciple makers from all over the world….
There are a number of books that are useful in helping small group ministries get intentionally focused on making mature disciples of Jesus. Here are my top 10 books that could be game changers for a small group ministry. And hey, I acknowledge the bias upfront, because I co-wrote some of them (I am winking…
The First Dimension of a Disciple When you think of 3D, you think of something three-dimensional — fully orbed and lifelike. Movies in 3D seem to jump off the screen right at you! 3D printers produce fully dimensional products. In the same way, a true disciple of Jesus has three dimensions that make him or…
If the trumpet doesn’t sound a clear call, who will get ready for battle?” (1 Cor. 14:8) The answer is very few. The practice of sounding a trumpet to call people to help predates trumpets. Even before trumpets were invented, shofars did the job. In Exodus 19, Moses used a shofar to bring the people…
The role of the senior minister/pastor of the local church is vital in a disciple making focus. Several years ago, at Discipleship.org, we hosted a gathering of national disciple making leaders to strategize on what steps we could collectively take to help churches across the country focus on disciple making. The single most important factor, we…
Loving people will cost you. Once you decide to become emotionally and spiritually invested in another person, you feel the weight of caring for them and helping them to become all that God has created them to be. My wife and I were married for eight years before we had children. It was a great…
The Discipleship Group is one of the most powerful tools the Church has today to help us become the believers Jesus commissioned us to be. That’s a pretty big statement. Give us a second to explain. If we asked you to tell us the first thing that comes to mind when we say, “Football,” what would your answer be? It might…
The Church in Acts two was in the midst of revival. God’s people were committing to God’s plan because the Holy Spirit was leading them, and they did so under the leadership of the apostles. Revival takes place in the context of spiritual leadership. God uses leaders to help bring about revival in His people….
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