The Danger of Leadership Development
A common response to lacking leaders is to provide leadership development. But training leaders should ideally follow disciple-making.
Category: Discipleship
Atrophy Evidence in the Church Body
While recovering from atrophy is time-consuming and painful, it is worth doing. Ignoring atrophy results in permanent loss.
How Do You Measure Surrender?
Even the losing side can win through surrender. Fighting ceases. Healing is possible. Recovery begins. Redirection of energy and resources starts.
Disciple-Making Evidence
What evidence would you expect to find that a person has become a disciple of Jesus Christ or in assessing spiritual progress?
Discipleship Equation: Relationship + Skills >>> Character + Obedience
What discipleship activities would feed this equation? What church programs provide opportunities for these elements to feed into disciples’ experiences?
Discipleship Consultation: Your Next Step
Because the needs and availability of pastors, discipleship leaders, and churches vary, the ways that a consultation can be delivered must also vary.
Favorite Post: Help Your Disciple Begin Discipling
You have have seen your disciple grow in his/her relationship with God and his/her understanding of being a disciple and discipling. Now what?
Favorite Post: Conversational Discipleship
The practice of conversational discipleship is needed today as you walk through life filled with teachable moment after teachable moment. Study God’s Word.
Caution for Disciple-Making
Whose disciples are you making? This is a serious question demanding caution and a serious response. There are only 2 acceptable answers: self and Jesus.
9 Early Discipleship Strategy Questions
Evaluate your efforts. How are you doing? What discipleship strategy questions would add for early in the journey (pre-salvation and early discipleship)?
Order Copies of Discipling and Caring
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.
Atrophy Evidence in the Church Body
While recovering from atrophy is time-consuming and painful, it is worth doing. Ignoring atrophy results in permanent loss.
How Do You Measure Surrender?
Even the losing side can win through surrender. Fighting ceases. Healing is possible. Recovery begins. Redirection of energy and resources starts.
Disciple-Making Evidence
What evidence would you expect to find that a person has become a disciple of Jesus Christ or in assessing spiritual progress?
Discipleship Equation: Relationship + Skills >>> Character + Obedience
What discipleship activities would feed this equation? What church programs provide opportunities for these elements to feed into disciples’ experiences?
Discipleship Consultation: Your Next Step
Because the needs and availability of pastors, discipleship leaders, and churches vary, the ways that a consultation can be delivered must also vary.
Favorite Post: Help Your Disciple Begin Discipling
You have have seen your disciple grow in his/her relationship with God and his/her understanding of being a disciple and discipling. Now what?
Favorite Post: Conversational Discipleship
The practice of conversational discipleship is needed today as you walk through life filled with teachable moment after teachable moment. Study God’s Word.
Caution for Disciple-Making
Whose disciples are you making? This is a serious question demanding caution and a serious response. There are only 2 acceptable answers: self and Jesus.
9 Early Discipleship Strategy Questions
Evaluate your efforts. How are you doing? What discipleship strategy questions would add for early in the journey (pre-salvation and early discipleship)?
Order Copies of Discipling and Caring
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.
