Discipleship-first friends, One of the things we champion at Discipleship.org is an emphasis on disciple making. We value the use of the expression “discipleship”—enough to name our whole ministry after it!—but we also appreciate the clarity that comes from a focus on disciple-making. With permission, I am republishing a short article on this point by Sonlife’s Josh…
Here is a great question: where is your commitment level to your local church? Okay, I know I just lost some people. But if you did click off of this post after that question, I actually did get an answer from you. If you are still reading but not very committed, you may have started…
How do you know when you’ve made a disciple? It’s an important question, after all Jesus’ last words were for us make disciples as we go. It wasn’t a new mission, but rather one that He’d invited his disciples into very early in His ministry (Matthew 4:19). The task of making mature disciples is affirmed…
Discipleship-First Friends, I am just completing an experiment in disciple making with some current and future leaders in the staff at our church that I wanted to share with you. The success we experienced in our group could be utilized to help other disciple makers with one of the biggest challenges North Americans face—because so…
Sometimes people ask questions that are hard to believe they even need to be asked. Asking a pastor if he has ever been discipled is one of those questions. Maybe it’s just me, but it seems there is a serious disconnect when the mission of the Church is to “make disciples” and a large percentage…
Recently I’ve been using two sneaky questions to ask pastors and small group participants why small groups exist at all. The question I ask pastors is, “I know nearly every church has them, but what Scriptural examples are there of small groups?” Most take me to Scriptures that describe the church, not a small group….
Today I have a challenge for you: I challenge you to name two miracles Jesus did where humans hadn’t essentially done the same thing. Ten years ago, I faced the same challenge. I looked at my friend and thought this was going to be easy. My mind raced to the many miraculous scenes in the…
Do you struggle to know what to do with the person you disciple? Most do. To solve the problem many people simply work through the hottest discipleship curriculum. After that the disciple is challenged to find someone else to “disciple” (i.e. go through the curriculum with). All too often this approach results in multiplying curriculum,…
Discipleship-First Friends, At Discipleship.org, we champion Jesus-style disciple making to help people to be disciples of Jesus who make disciples with Jesus. To that end we aggregate and promote disciple-making leaders, organizations, speakers, and writers. As lead servant at Discipleship.org, I get a front-row seat to what is happening with disciple making in North America…
Here is one question every pastor ought to ask: “Who are you discipling?” If the mission of the Church is to make disciples, then every pastor ought to be making them. Every pastor ought to be personally engaged in the mission of making disciples. Why are so many pastors not personally making disciples? Let’s walk…
Dietrich Bonhoeffer grew up in an upper middle-class German family of doctors and scientists. So when he told his parents that he wanted to study theology, they were not that excited. Dietrich later became one of the world’s foremost theologians and thinkers of the 20th century. He is not remembered as much for his public…
Discipleship-First Friends, As our team at Discipleship.org has been working with national and international leaders on the key elements of disciple making movements and disciple-making cultures, we learned a strange fact: Even though there are over 330 million people in the United States, there are no clear disciple making movements in our country at this time. We use…
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