What the Difference: Discipleship, Discipling, and Disciplemaking?
Terminology confusion abounds related to discipleship, discipling, and disciplemaking. Can you communicate the differences between the terms?
Tag: discipling
Academic Versus Conversational Discipling
For the last five months, I have been serving as the Interim Discipleship Pastor for a nearby church. In that capacity, I recently led a five-week discipleship group through The Forge Bible Study on Wednesday nights. On Sunday following our final study together, I had arranged for 75 church members…
Discipling Requires Practicing Care
Our discipling groups are places for practicing care with one another so that care spills over into lives beyond the group.
Review: Help Your Disciples Gain Competence and Confidence
Competence and confidence will come from repetition and conversation. How are you accomplishing these goals?
Help Your Disciples Gain Competence and Confidence
When your disciples gain competence and confidence they desire to share what they have learned. Invest forward.
Discipleship Needs: How Do I Address Them?
Four questions are shared to better understand discipleship needs along with seven options for addressing those needs.
How to Solve the Discipleship Tensions
Some personalities struggle with tension. But like stress, these discipleship tensions are made to be experienced.
Discipling: Do You Hold Others Accountable or Encourage?
Hold accountable or encourage? Some need a drill sergeant barking orders, but most people prefer someone walking with them toward change.
Starting Small Is the Best Way to Launch Discipleship
We tend to try to make most things too complicated. We tend to underestimate the power of simplicity. Starting small is best.
Favorite Post: 3 Great Disciple-Making Questions
Great disciple-making questions are naturally relational, encourage conversation, deepen insight, lead to assessment, and taking next steps.
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.
Academic Versus Conversational Discipling
For the last five months, I have been serving as the Interim Discipleship Pastor for a nearby church. In that capacity, I recently led a five-week discipleship group through The Forge Bible Study on Wednesday nights. On Sunday following our final study together, I had arranged for 75 church members…
Discipling Requires Practicing Care
Our discipling groups are places for practicing care with one another so that care spills over into lives beyond the group.
Review: Help Your Disciples Gain Competence and Confidence
Competence and confidence will come from repetition and conversation. How are you accomplishing these goals?
Help Your Disciples Gain Competence and Confidence
When your disciples gain competence and confidence they desire to share what they have learned. Invest forward.
Discipleship Needs: How Do I Address Them?
Four questions are shared to better understand discipleship needs along with seven options for addressing those needs.
How to Solve the Discipleship Tensions
Some personalities struggle with tension. But like stress, these discipleship tensions are made to be experienced.
Discipling: Do You Hold Others Accountable or Encourage?
Hold accountable or encourage? Some need a drill sergeant barking orders, but most people prefer someone walking with them toward change.
Starting Small Is the Best Way to Launch Discipleship
We tend to try to make most things too complicated. We tend to underestimate the power of simplicity. Starting small is best.
Favorite Post: 3 Great Disciple-Making Questions
Great disciple-making questions are naturally relational, encourage conversation, deepen insight, lead to assessment, and taking next steps.
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.
