This blog is an excerpt from the free eBook, The Discipleship Gospel Primer. Download it free here. “As egg-headed as it may sound, our basic problem is our theology. The problem is our doctrine of salvation.”[1] —Dallas Willard Why must we define the gospel today? Let’s start with a common scene that takes place in…
A couple of weeks ago I was able to spend time with Dave Ferguson. The church planting crowd might think I mean, “Exponential Dave Ferguson,” but I’m actually talking about a different Dave Ferguson.You might call him, “Relationship Dave Ferguson.” That’s because he’s a relationship expert, and he helped create a free discipleship assessment with an emphasis on…
Download the free sampler of LifeWay researcher Daniel Im’s new book “No Silver Bullet”. Visit https://discipleship.org/lifeway to get your free PDF. The following audio comes from the National Disciple Making Forum by Discipleship.org. The theme for this year was “Disciple Maker,” and LifeWay hosted a track called “How to Mature People Through Disciple Making”….
Since fourteen, I have struggled with a long list of health problems. While many doctors have helped me manage my symptoms, no one has been able to attribute my condition to any specific cause. My symptoms have varied. The severity of each symptom has varied. But I have yet to feel healthy. That much has…
Download the free sampler of LifeWay researcher Daniel Im’s new book “No Silver Bullet”. Visit https://discipleship.org/lifeway to get your free PDF. The following audio comes from the National Disciple Making Forum by Discipleship.org. The theme for this year was “Disciple Maker,” and LifeWay hosted a track called “How to Mature People Through Disciple Making”….
Discipleship.org pulled together top national disciple making leaders to map out a common disciple making process for churches and church leaders to use. The model we developed shows people moving from conversion, where a person starts as a spiritual infant, and then on up through becoming a spiritual parent and a grandparent who makes disciple…
Disciple makers struggle to find common markers and common vernacular to describe the process of disciple making. This was the goal in developing a commonly available assessment tool focused on disciple making. Our online tool is designed to help Christians develop an objective assessment of themselves as disciple makers. By establishing profiles and criteria, we…
Tim Keller is one of the most respected Christian leaders of our time. He is an author, scholar, and recently retired pastor of the influential Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York City. When the New York Times wants to hear a voice from a thoughtful Evangelical leader, he is their go-to man. So, when Tim…
Think of your brain as a series of roads that you travel every day. This is actually what your brain is like on a physical level: a series of ruts—like paths or highways—that your thoughts travel over and over again. Have you ever noticed how you often have the same thought, as though your brain…
We live in a time of great change in some core moral beliefs in North America. For example, Barna research has documented that over 40 percent of self-described practicing Christians now believe that it is a good idea for people to live together before they are married (cohabitation). One of our 10 disciple making affirmations…
Discipleship.org and Exponential pulled together top national disciple making leaders to map out 5 levels of disciple making. Our model shows people moving from conversion where a person starts as a spiritual infant (level 1) on up through levels 2 and 3 to reach level 4, a personal disciple maker. And then, at level 5, a leader…
Discipleship.org asked the leaders of 12 Disciple Making ministries that partner with us to share their top 2 book recommendations. We told everyone to assume the recommendations of two classics: The Master Plan of Evangelism, by Robert Coleman and The Cost of Discipleship, by Dietrich Bonhoeffer. We also encouraged each leader to only recommend only…
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