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….
So why did God create humankind? What was his purpose? The Westminster Shorter Catechism says, “Man’s chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy him forever.” The Purpose Driven Life says, “it begins with God, but it’s not about you,” and then goes on to talk about loving and serving others. Ask a hundred…
No disrespect to fluff! It’s great for pillows, puppies and Nashville hotel robes. But it doesn’t belong on the Disciple Making Forum stage. November 7 – 8, some of the world’s leading practitioners and disciple-making experts will share their biblical strategies and experiences with 1500 disciple-making leaders! And we hope you’ll be one of them! Get a glimpse of…
A podcast featuring Real Life Ministries’s new Online Campus Pastor, Patrick Annotti. Patrick and Lance are discussing the topic of Discipleship and how it integrates with the digital world we find ourselves in. Some of the things they cover in this episode include: What are some of the reasons people might attend church online? If…
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