Are you a disciple making rookie? Rook • ie Meaning: A new recruit, especially in the army or police. A member of an athletic team in his first full season. In sports, rookies represent hope. Some arrive to the team as hyped prospects expected to be the future of the franchise. Others are unknown players…
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…
With the rise of technology and social media platforms in the past few years, people now have a 24/7 window to look into the lives of those around us or in our world at any given time. Because of this, the temptation to compare our lives to others is one that is hard to avoid….
What’s the most important part of a balloon? Though most of us have never thought about it, the first answer that comes to mind is the air inside it. After all, a helium-filled balloon is much different than one we blow up. Not to mention the fact that a balloon without air is no fun….
I heard it again last week. “I know it’s terrible,” he said, “but if I’m honest my life is work, family, and church. I don’t have time to get to know my neighbors. I just don’t. I don’t have time to engage my co-workers outside the office. My life is family, work, and church.” I…
I know lots of churches that are doing a good job assimilating people into community, but very few churches are good at moving people into a disciple making core. In fact, most churches are content with assimilating people into a group, serving, and membership. Those are all great steps, but they still fall short of…
If I have heard it once, I have heard it a hundred times: “We need more leaders!” This is the cry I hear from pastors all the time. Almost every pastor I know is looking for more leaders. The problem is: they are looking in the wrong place. Most pastors want leaders to transfer from…
Jesus modeled the importance of relationship in the way He taught His disciples: He followed the Deuteronomy 6:7 exhortation. God’s commands were on His heart and He talked about them as He spent time with the disciples. He talked about the truth when they ate and when they went to bed. Jesus was with His…
After spending a week of training pastors and leaders in disciple making, I can tell you that the Church in the Dominican Republic is hungry to make disciples. Rarely do you find so many leaders as interested and excited about making disciples as I saw this week. The potential for disciple making in the Dominican…
There seems to be a lot of debate in the church world about the best way to reach people. The crazy thing is that the more we debate, the less people we seem to be reaching. Personally, I feel like it is another trick of the enemy to get our eye off the ball. Our…
Most people who study the church in America lament the fact that the church has a crisis in leadership… one of the problems I see is that we have redefined leadership, and now we are looking for the wrong thing. All too often we are looking for men who can entertain or teach, rather than…
I’ve met some pastors over the years that seem content with drawing a crowd. If they have a good weekend service with plenty of people present, they have hit their goal. They have mission success! If the mission of Jesus is simply to draw a big crowd, then the weekend service becomes the main thing….
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