By Frank Nuckolls, Impact Discipleship Ministries There is a great need for strong, effective leadership in the Church today. If leaders simply want to maintain the status quo, they will fail in leading the Church to accomplish its God-given mission and vision. Pastors and leaders in the Church today need to be people who understand…
I was having a conversation about Matthew 28:19–20 and the mission of the church with two men who had Bible College degrees and a decade’s worth of ministry behind them. And like so many pastors today, they had misunderstood that well-known text. They thought the Great Commission was all about evangelism. The mission of the…
In this ebook we want to get at the heartbeat of what a church is all about. What does God want us to do? What is our purpose? Where are we going?
After this the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them two by two ahead of Him to every town and place where He was about to go. He told them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into His harvest field.” —…
Dallas Willard once said, “Every church ought to ask two questions. What is our plan for making disciples, and is that plan working?” The reality is, very few leaders are asking those questions. Church leaders are not failing to ask those important questions because they are bad leaders and don’t care. Leaders are not asking…
Understanding your church’s culture is like doing a connect the dot worksheet, but with no dots and no lines. Instead, just information scattered on the page. The challenge is to sort out the important information from the noise that seeks to hide it. Lack of clarity isn’t the only challenge. Every culture presents noise and…
The future is coming. If you look closely toward the horizon you can see a hint of light pushing against the darkness. As the future rises now is the time to seize the day! Though we currently sit in the darkness of the in-between, a new day is dawning. For church leaders the transition from…
Learn the difference between the core mission and the only mission. Join Bobby Harrington, Justin Gravitt, Alex Mata, and Steve McCoy on Thursday, December 3rd at 10am (CST) for a lively discussion on how disciple making is the cultural environment that drives everything in the local church.
If you are a disciple of Jesus, you have two families. The first one, the family of origin, is the one you were born into. You had no control or choice in this matter. Your family of origin may have been very nurturing, or it may have had disfunction. Either way – your family of…
Dear Discipleship-first Friends, I hope the subject line got your attention because it is a vitally important question for the North American Church. Most of us have been trained to make church members instead of making disciples of Jesus. To help everyone with the shift to “making disciples” instead of “making church members,” pastor, author…
I have been studying both the American church and international disciple making movements lately. What a contrast! We recently completed a national study of disciple-making churches in the USA with Exponential (more on that in the next couple of months). One of the biggest insights from this national study is that we did not find…
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