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…
Dear Discipleship-First Tribe, Jesus has given us the most important mission in the world – to be and make disciples. That is why we at Discipleship.org champion Jesus-style disciple making. We won’t stop functioning as an organization until disciple making movements are the norm in homes, communities, and churches in North America. Why? Because the difference we’re…
Before you dive into making disciples in your church, let me encourage you with a few Do’s and Don’ts. Often pastors, in their zeal to make disciples, inadvertently do things that actually make it harder for them to do so effectively. So here are some practical warnings. Don’t start casting vision about disciple making immediately….
It’s that time of year again; family obligations and frustrations, Santa and shopping, no room at the inn, or in our schedules or in our hearts. We adhere to traditions we once treasured, but are now more mandate than merry. We’ve exchanged the holy night for a frenzied life. We remind ourselves, “Keep calm and…
When I talk to leaders about personally investing in people, I often get a bit of push back. 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 my training…
I find that people who often have the hardest time becoming relational are those who have been in church a long time. If you ask personal questions, they don’t want to talk. They will often point to the Bible and say, “This is all we need for spiritual growth. Read it. Study it. Learn it.”…
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