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Thanksgiving Family Discipleship and Fun

Thanksgiving is a special day for friends and family to gather, express thanks together, and enjoy a meal, stories and fun together.

There are many reasons people have dropped out, but I believe all the reasons boil down to one thing: a lack of care.

We must be able to defend our faith in our culture today, and to do that we must disciple our people on how to engage in apologetics.

Take the world to your leader (Jesus) by living a life where your love looks like His love. He taught us how.

Critical disciple-making question: What would happen if the church became the most caring group that exists on earth?

Critical disciple-making realizes that you cannot separate care from outreach. The reason we reach out is because He cares and we care.

Critical disciple-making will include expectations, competence/confidence, and practicing disciple-making with us to produce disciple-makers.

Of our disciple-making issues, if disciples never learn to read and study God’s Word for themselves, they will not teach others to do so.

I lean toward having conversation relatively early in your disciple-making sessions together about how you both are shaped to serve.

A connection event could propel your disciple-making relationships forward while teaching your disciples to keep eyes open along life’s paths.