Spiritual Growth Helps
Sam Newman and Ben B How about We Get Together for a Sandwich? A few years ago I joined EKU Baptist Campus Ministry as van driver for a New York hurricane Disaster Relief project. On this trip I immediately was drawn to Ben B in friendship. He was a small,…
Want A Sandwich? Since becoming more intentional in making disciples that make disciples, God has blessed me with twelve guys to do life with one-on-one. He has also blessed my wife and me with two different couples that we have worked with together couple-to-couple. Two of the twelve guys share the…
Toby DeHay Testimony High View of Scripture: Disciple-making has helped Concord hold to a high view of scripture. I’ve been challenging them over the past four years to filter everything through scripture. They’ve come to expect a question like “What does the Bible say about that?” Learning together that discipleship…
Toby DeHay Testimony Multiplication: We are starting to see the fruit of multiplication through discipleship. Multiplication does not happen until the third generation and we have seen some of that at Concord. We have several men and women who have been discipled, and have discipled, or are now discipling, someone…
DiscipleShift 1 is coming to Eastside Community Church, in Richmond, Kentucky, on January 17-18, 2018! You are invited. This will be a two-day experience of learning and living out Jesus’ method of disciple-making through interaction with a facilitation team and small group. You will receive tips and tools to equip you…
Sam Newman Testimony During the fall of 2014, I then began to pray for a group of 10 or less Christians in my church who had servant hearts and were teachable and open to learning how to disciple someone one-on-one to the point where their Timothys would go out and…
SOMETHING WAS WRONG. I took my first church staff position when I was 18 years old and a freshman in college at Union University in Jackson, TN. Fast forward to 2013 and after 30 years in ministry I felt clearly during my quiet times that the Lord was telling me something…
In the hallway at church on Sunday, Timothy approaches you and expresses an interest in being discipled. You have not previously gotten to know Timothy. He says, “I need your help.” You agree on a time and place for a meeting. What would you include/cover in your meeting? Consider the…
In a recent webinar, Thom Rainer, president of LifeWay Christian Resources, defined “discipleship” by saying: My simple definition of discipleship is when a follower of Christ becomes more like Christ. I want to encourage you to watch the entire webinar which features Thom Rainer, Jim Sheppard, and Larry Osbourne. Definitions…
I hear testimonies about individual and church disciple-making regularly. Some are stories of what was learned from failed attempts. Sometimes disciples move. Sometimes resources used were ineffective. Sometimes plans were too cumbersome. But in all cases, learning about disciple-making was strengthened. The biggest failure is not trying. In addition to…
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.