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.
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Accountability and Relationships in Discipleship
For a Sunday School class or small group to move toward discipleship, accountability in relationships is needed with honesty among leaders and members.
Six Discipleship Practices
I challenge you to evaluate your discipleship practices with these six. Where do you need to strengthen your practices?
What Is Missing from Our Disciple-Making?
Today I am reviewing a book that had a strong impact on my paradigm for disciple-making and Sunday School. The book is T4T: A Discipleship ReRevolution by Steve Smith and Ying Kai. The book is about evangelism, disciple-making, and church planting. My review reminded me how frequently we try to…
Faithfulness to the Disciple-Making Meeting
People today are busy: leaders and disciples. Commitments can often be shallow and fleeting. On the other hand, disciple-making is best done through the context of consistent relationships and discipline. Knowing those realities, how can we encourage faithfulness in our disciple-making meetings (even our own)? One of the most important…
Encouraging Disciple-Making Questions
Accountability is part of many disciple-making relationships. Too often people dread and avoid accountability. Accountability, however, does not have to be negative. It can be encouraging and positive. Instead of focusing on “if you failed,” the focus can be on “how you took a step forward.” Consider these questions which…
Disciple-making: Using Group Size Advantageously
In The Impact of Proxemics on Disciple-making, I talked about four American spatial distances/zones and group size in those zones. Here is a summary of what I shared there: Intimate distance: 0-18 inches (2 people) Personal distance: 18 inches to 4 feet (3-7 people) Social distance: 4 to 10 feet…
Five Ways to Make Disciples, Part 2
This is the second of our five part series on making disciples. The most overlooked opportunity to enhance disciple making in a local church is through the Sunday School! For this to happen Sunday School teachers and leaders must see their role as not just “teaching the Bible” but “making…
Disciple-Making Encounters
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.
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Accountability and Relationships in Discipleship
For a Sunday School class or small group to move toward discipleship, accountability in relationships is needed with honesty among leaders and members.
Six Discipleship Practices
I challenge you to evaluate your discipleship practices with these six. Where do you need to strengthen your practices?
What Is Missing from Our Disciple-Making?
Today I am reviewing a book that had a strong impact on my paradigm for disciple-making and Sunday School. The book is T4T: A Discipleship ReRevolution by Steve Smith and Ying Kai. The book is about evangelism, disciple-making, and church planting. My review reminded me how frequently we try to…
Faithfulness to the Disciple-Making Meeting
People today are busy: leaders and disciples. Commitments can often be shallow and fleeting. On the other hand, disciple-making is best done through the context of consistent relationships and discipline. Knowing those realities, how can we encourage faithfulness in our disciple-making meetings (even our own)? One of the most important…
Encouraging Disciple-Making Questions
Accountability is part of many disciple-making relationships. Too often people dread and avoid accountability. Accountability, however, does not have to be negative. It can be encouraging and positive. Instead of focusing on “if you failed,” the focus can be on “how you took a step forward.” Consider these questions which…
Disciple-making: Using Group Size Advantageously
In The Impact of Proxemics on Disciple-making, I talked about four American spatial distances/zones and group size in those zones. Here is a summary of what I shared there: Intimate distance: 0-18 inches (2 people) Personal distance: 18 inches to 4 feet (3-7 people) Social distance: 4 to 10 feet…
Five Ways to Make Disciples, Part 2
This is the second of our five part series on making disciples. The most overlooked opportunity to enhance disciple making in a local church is through the Sunday School! For this to happen Sunday School teachers and leaders must see their role as not just “teaching the Bible” but “making…
Disciple-Making Encounters
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.
Order Your Copy Today!