The following content is an excerpt from the eBook Fill Your Seats. Download your free digital version in your favorite format here. Every church wants to be a disciple-making church. But when you define a disciple as someone who is following Jesus, being changed by Jesus, and engaged in the mission of Jesus, you’ll realize…
The following content is an excerpt from the eBook Fill Your Seats. Download your free digital version in your favorite format here. My dad modeled humility. He taught me, “Don’t ever ask anyone to do something you wouldn’t do.” I’ve swept the floor in every business I’ve ever led. Why? People want to follow someone…
Dear Discipleship-First Community, As 2018 comes to an end, we are grateful for our 25+ disciple-making partner organizations and all that God did through these ministries in the last twelve months, including drawing over 1,400 leaders to the National Forum! As a non-profit ministry, your partnership of prayer and financial support will help us to…
The following content is an excerpt from the eBook Fill Your Seats. Download your free digital version in your favorite format here. Pastors have always taught God’s Word with the goal of making disciples. That preaching, along with millions of lay people living and sharing their faith, has created something like two billion professing Christians….
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…
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