You are having a conversation with another Christian. He says, “My boss expects me to lie to my customers. I don’t know what to do.” The conversation is a teachable moment, a discipleship opportunity. What if you seriously asked, “What does the Bible say?” What if you sent him home…
I am attending the Discipleship Track at Exponential in Orlando, Florida. The Forum panel includes some major names in discipleship: Robby Gallaty, Jim Putman, Bobby Harrington, Alex Absolom, Ariyana Rimson, and Bill Hull. Their focus has been walking through discipleship arenas/spaces (from Discipleship That Fits): public, social, personal, transparent, and divine.…
What is a spiritual discipline? It is a tool, method, or process which deepens your relationship with God. A spiritual discipline can practiced one-time, occasional, or repeated. Journaling will usually fall into the repeated or occasional practice. There are a couple major categories of journaling: (1) life journaling and (2)…
In Deuteronomy 31:12 (ESV), we read some disciple-making instructions: Assemble the people, men, women, and little ones, and the sojourner within your towns, that they may hear and learn to fear the LORD your God, and be careful to do all the words of this law… There are three instructions…
Are you coming to the BACE Disciple Leader Gathering at Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary on April 14-15, 2016? I plan to be there and hope you will be too! Be sure to register soon. FEATURED PRESENTATIONS What is a Disciple? – Featuring Robby Gallaty, Replicate Ministries, Pastor, Long Hollow Baptist Church,…
How many of us have a Bible in hand at every moment of temptation? How many of us take the necessary time in Bible reading and prayer in advance of daily and life-impacing decisions? And yet those are some of the very moments when we need God’s Word the most.…
Where are you headed and how will you get there? Have you prayed? Our Lord has promised to be with us, and He is “able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think” (Ephesians 3:20, ESV). You don’t have to ask what to do. Making disciples…
What materials are you using for one-on-one disciple-making? What materials are you using for D-groups (small disciple-making groups of four or less)? Please press Comments and share what you are using and how you are using those materials. This blog is not in the business of promoting or selling products,…
Disciple-making efforts matter. What are you doing to help disciples make progress? How are you helping them to mutliply? Think 2 Timothy 2:2. Are fewer and fewer involved in your disciple-making strategy as you go farther along? Then the strategy may be too complicated. You may have too many steps…
On Thursday, September 17, 10;30-Noon (Eastern time), Kentucky Baptist Religious Education Association will connect by WebEx to focus on Disciple-Making. Sam Newman, Minister of Education/Discipleship at First Baptist Church, Richmond, KY, will be the featured presenter. He will be sharing about his one-on-one and one-on-group efforts at starting a disciple-making…
Two encounters are critical. First, the leader encounters God in His Word and is changed. Second, the leader guides the group to have a life-changing encounter.
In John 13:34-35, three times Jesus said, “Love one another.” Your group is the ideal place to practice and launch the kind of love for one another that shows the world that we are His disciples.