Discipleship-First Community, One thing I really enjoy in my work with Discipleship.org is getting a front-row seat as I watch and listen to top disciple makers. I wanted to share some of that with you by way of “best practices”. Here are 5 of the best practices I’ve seen in disciple makers around the country…
This is part of our blog series from the free eBook Evangelism or Discipleship: Can They Effectively Work Together? In the last post we said that perhaps our discipleship efforts are missing something. Here’s why we think this is… Discipleship “Teach these new disciples to obey all the commands I have given you” (Matt. 28:20,…
If we are ever going to grow up in our faith, we will need spiritual relationships to help us do so. A mature person in Christ has deep relationships that help him or her remain mature and even grow further. There is absolutely no way around the need for real relationships. Scripture teaches us this…
The following content is an excerpt from the eBook Fill Your Seats. Download your free digital version in your favorite format here. We, as a culture, learned this in parenting a long time ago: You can talk to your kids until you’re blue in the face, but they may not do what you say. It’s…
Many discipling-making efforts today are focused on information transfer and they are often delivered through church programs. We are grateful for the way these efforts help people, but they often carry with them certain limitations. When we look at the life of Jesus, we see that his disciple-making rhythms were much more extensive and they…
You have a powerful story. Believe it or not, you already have a very effective tool that will help you point people to Jesus Christ. That tool is your personal story. Every believer has a story, and when you tell how Jesus encountered you and changed your life, it yields powerful results. Just think about…
This is part of our blog series from the free eBook Evangelism or Discipleship: Can They Effectively Work Together? Here comes the part of making disciples that requires grit and patience. The disciple making Jesus calls us to should lead us to reproduce. The goal is not just neighbors, friends and work associates. Most of…
The following content is an excerpt from the eBook Fill Your Seats. Download your free digital version in your favorite format here. NASA recently picked twelve new astronauts—out of 18,000 applications. Why? Because being chosen by our country to go into outer space is an honor! Even though it’s risky business, it requires you to…
Dear Discipleship-First Tribe, You may not know this, but Discipleship.org’s roots are associated with our partner and sister ministry Exponential. Most people know Exponential as the world’s largest gathering of church multiplication leaders and church planters. The truth is, Exponential is not a conference but a community of activists who are sold out to see…
The following content is an excerpt from the eBook Fill Your Seats. Download your free digital version in your favorite format here. In Matthew 10:6, Jesus said “Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents and harmless as doves.” Paul, in 1 Corinthians 9:22 said, “To…
To the Discipleship-First Tribe, We are witnessing more and more unsettling public conversations today than at any other time in recent history. We see it with politicians, political commentators, social media posts, conversations at work, in coffee shops—and even in the church. People are having a hard time talking to one another in an appropriate…
The following content is an excerpt from the eBook Evangelism or Discipleship. Download your free digital version in your favorite format here. At the dawn of the Christian era, water baptism was the official beginning for those who wanted to declare their faith. The baptismal formula “in the name of the Father, the Son and…
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