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…
I don’t want to fall for false teachings. I don’t want to be led astray regarding what the Bible teaches, and I don’t want my children deceived either. I’ll bet you feel the same. But I’m not a professional theologian, nor do I have time to become an expert on every doctrinal dilemma, and that’s…
Dear Discipleship-First Tribe, We want you to become the disciple maker God intends you to be. For those of you who are church leaders, we also want you to develop and lead effective disciple-making churches. We are praying that the fires of disciple making movements will spring up everywhere, especially in our primary context, the…
We want you to meet Justin Gravitt, a leader of Navigators Church Ministries. We want to help you find the best disciple-making guides, and that’s why we’re continuing to introduce these partners to you. Here’s what Justin said about his ministry in our interview with him: Tell us about the name of your ministry. Navigators Church…
A few years back I was catching up with a friend who is on staff with a campus ministry. He loves the lost and has a real desire to see the world, and students in particular, come to faith and grow in maturity. As we discussed his plan to disciple his students, he mentioned there…
A Level 5 disciple making church epitomizes our highest aspirations for churches in North America and beyond. These disciple making churches emphasize the ministry, priesthood, and disciple making mandate of every believer. They are not dependent on preachers, programs, and praise and worship gatherings as is the case with popular North American churches, although there…
“Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” That statement, attributed to the most influential management guru of our time, Peter Drucker, describes a reality church leaders must face in the pursuit of creating disciple making churches. A disciple making church culture is what your church actually does in disciple making; strategy is your plans on paper. Unfortunately,…
A Level 5 disciple making church epitomizes our highest aspirations for churches in North America and beyond. These disciple making churches emphasize the ministry, priesthood, and disciple making mandate of every believer. They are not dependent on preachers, programs, and praise and worship gatherings as is the case with popular North American churches, although there…
“Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” That statement, attributed to the most influential management guru of our time, Peter Drucker, describes a reality church leaders must face in the pursuit of creating disciple making churches. A disciple making church culture is what your church actually does in disciple making; strategy is your plans on paper. Unfortunately,…
I am working with my team at Discipleship·org and the team at Exponential (church planting Network) on a new framework for disciple-making churches to measure what it means for a church to effectively make increasing numbers of disciples. What happens when a church gets sold out to making disciples who make disciples? Now, this framework…
Dear Discipleship·org community, Defining a church and a disciple making church are big challenges. We brought a small group of disciple making leaders together last month to help us define these two key terms that are crucial for disciple-making leaders to thrive. I wanted to share the challenge and our working solutions with all our…
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