by Craig Etheredge I’ve heard common excuses that hinder discipleship in churches. One of these is fear. So let’s talk about that. “I’m afraid to show people who I really am.” I believe this excuse is very real and very personal. There are many church leaders who agree that we should be personally investing time…
By Craig Etheredge Welcome to week five of our series on common excuses that hinder discipleship in your church. In case you’ve missed it, each week, we’ve been breaking down a common excuse that might be hindering your church’s discipleship goals. In week one, we talked about how our schedules are usually the first excuse…
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by Craig Etheredge Welcome back to our series on common excuses that can hinder discipleship in your church! If you’ve missed it, we’re on week four of our series breaking down some of the most common excuses we hear from church leaders that might actually be hindering your discipleship goals within your church. In part…
by Craig Etheredge Welcome back to our series, Common Excuses That Hinder Discipleship in Your Church. In week one, we talked about how our schedules are our most common excuse that prevents us from taking the time to emotionally invest in others. Week two explored the excuse that says we can’t disciple someone else because we’ve…
by Craig Etheredge I’ve heard some of the common excuses we hear from pastors about spending their time investing in people personally. It can seem a little odd that this is an area of pushback from pastors, but when we break the excuses down one by one, it starts to make more sense. As we…
by Craig Etheredge When I talk to leaders about personally investing in people, I often get a bit of pushback. For some reason, there is a resistance when it comes to personal investment in people. When I first became a pastor, I didn’t know much about how to invest in a man’s life. Most of…
By Chad Harrington We are witnessing cultural chaos in the West unlike any time in recent memory, and Christians are wondering what to do on various issues. What do we do about mask mandates? How do we handle freedom of speech challenges? What happens when the government asks us to do something with which we…
by Craig Etheredge In this post I share three spiritual disciplines and ways you can challenge your church to practice. 1. Reading and Memorizing God’s Word This can seem like the most elementary discipline, but it really is one of the most important. Scripture is our direct line to insight from God about almost every…
by Craig Etheredge Is your church healthy? That can feel like a loaded question, but we think it’s an important one to ask. Church health can have a skewed meaning in the eyes of the North American church. Many Christians look at the churches that have thousands of people attending each Sunday and think that’s…
by Craig Etheredge Ministry would be a lot easier if there were a step by step handbook telling us how to lead our church… Wait. There is. The book of Acts isn’t just the apostles sharing the gospel and performing miracles. We see the very beginnings of the church and how it operated. We saw…
Over the last couple of years, I have found myself reflecting on the contrast between good church members and growing disciples. This, in turn, has led me to consider the subtle differences between churches who emphasize making growing disciples and churches that don’t, even if those churches are what we would describe as healthy, growing churches. I think…
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