Connecting Your Strategies for Assimilation and Discipleship
Discipleship fails without the big rocks of assimilation. Connecting your strategies is essential and does not have to be complicated.
Tag: assimilation
What Are the Values of Leading a Disciple to Serve?
Leading a disciple to serve with you is often one of the key ways of helping your disciple to take steps toward serving.
Good Assimilation Habits
Simple assimilation habits help believers identify and connect with Christ and the church. A leader/teacher can help move members toward good habits.
Evaluation of New Member Assimilation
Simply stated, assimilation is the process of new people becoming part of a group. Assimilation efforts begin with relationship-building and evangelism efforts prior to joining a church and continue in connecting, discipling, and mobilizing efforts as part of the body of Christ. So new member assimilation begins the moment a…
Year’s Top 10 Most Read 28Nineteen Posts
If you look today at books published, conferences offered, and statistics from 28Nineteen, you will recognize that interest in discipleship is on the increase. With ten days left in the year, pageviews of 28Nineteen are up 20.7% for 2017. That is good news. The mission our Lord gave His Bride…
Disciple-Making Means Multiplying Lasting Impressions
In Greeters Help Make Positive First Impressions, I said: If we make negative first impressions (individually or as a church), we may not get a second chance. It is also difficult to disciple people who don’t return or who drop out. This post is about what we can do to…
Discipleship Conferences at Super Saturday 2017
Fresh, Practical Training I pray that you have seen lives changed, leaders developed, new people reached, unsaved introduced to Jesus, and new discipling relationships begun through your church this year. As you plan for the start of another year of discipleship, I am sure you recognize the value of training…
Hear “VELCRO Church” Author Live
KBREA has invited Mike James, coauthor of V.E.L.C.R.O. Church, to share during a live web conference on Thursday, March 10, 10:30-Noon Eastern time. Mike will share practical and biblical ideas for addressing a real problem in most churches: opening the front door and closing the back door. How do we…
Who Will Help You Carry Out Your VELCRO Church Strategy?
Over the years as I have studied church statistics, one is glaring. If our churches would slow down the losses (people leaving often due to neglect), they would have more people attending, discipling, serving, and reaching. In most cases, our churches lose more members than they reach each year. Too…
Key New Member Class Questions, Part 1
In this two part series, I want to share some key questions as you evaluate or design your new member class experience. In Part 1, I want to guide you to consider the purpose, frequency, and leader of your new member class. Also, we will look at your participation expectation…
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.
What Are the Values of Leading a Disciple to Serve?
Leading a disciple to serve with you is often one of the key ways of helping your disciple to take steps toward serving.
Good Assimilation Habits
Simple assimilation habits help believers identify and connect with Christ and the church. A leader/teacher can help move members toward good habits.
Evaluation of New Member Assimilation
Simply stated, assimilation is the process of new people becoming part of a group. Assimilation efforts begin with relationship-building and evangelism efforts prior to joining a church and continue in connecting, discipling, and mobilizing efforts as part of the body of Christ. So new member assimilation begins the moment a…
Year’s Top 10 Most Read 28Nineteen Posts
If you look today at books published, conferences offered, and statistics from 28Nineteen, you will recognize that interest in discipleship is on the increase. With ten days left in the year, pageviews of 28Nineteen are up 20.7% for 2017. That is good news. The mission our Lord gave His Bride…
Disciple-Making Means Multiplying Lasting Impressions
In Greeters Help Make Positive First Impressions, I said: If we make negative first impressions (individually or as a church), we may not get a second chance. It is also difficult to disciple people who don’t return or who drop out. This post is about what we can do to…
Discipleship Conferences at Super Saturday 2017
Fresh, Practical Training I pray that you have seen lives changed, leaders developed, new people reached, unsaved introduced to Jesus, and new discipling relationships begun through your church this year. As you plan for the start of another year of discipleship, I am sure you recognize the value of training…
Hear “VELCRO Church” Author Live
KBREA has invited Mike James, coauthor of V.E.L.C.R.O. Church, to share during a live web conference on Thursday, March 10, 10:30-Noon Eastern time. Mike will share practical and biblical ideas for addressing a real problem in most churches: opening the front door and closing the back door. How do we…
Who Will Help You Carry Out Your VELCRO Church Strategy?
Over the years as I have studied church statistics, one is glaring. If our churches would slow down the losses (people leaving often due to neglect), they would have more people attending, discipling, serving, and reaching. In most cases, our churches lose more members than they reach each year. Too…
Key New Member Class Questions, Part 1
In this two part series, I want to share some key questions as you evaluate or design your new member class experience. In Part 1, I want to guide you to consider the purpose, frequency, and leader of your new member class. Also, we will look at your participation expectation…
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.
