A Guide For People Who Want to Make Disciples
I wrote up a 34 page guide for those of you who want a simple and reproducible method for making disciples. I get asked just about every week for something like this. Most people were never intentionally discipled so they don’t know where to start. This guide will give you a starting point that ultimately […]
Make This Shift – Disciple to Conversion Not Convert To Disciple
Many Bible studies work through scriptures to convince someone to agree Jesus is Lord, the Son of God and commit their lives to Him. That often means we feel the burden is on us to present things correctly, be convincing, etc…and what is more we have no idea how to transition from this approach to […]
Disciple Makers Who Pray Three Hours A Day!
In Contagious Disciple Making David Watson wrote this stunning description of disciple makers, “In a meeting of the top 100 disciple makers in our ministry, we looked for common elements among these high producing leaders. Each of these disciple-makers, along with the teams they led, started more than twenty churches per year. One group started […]
God May Use Africa To Turn the American Church Around: Six Things They Can Teach Us
The United States has sent many missionaries to Africa over the last 100+ years. Seeds were planted there that are now producing a massive harvest. As God is moving in the church in Africa and movements are taking place there, the American church is dwindling. Is it possible that in God’s perfect timing the seeds […]
Daily Prayer Prompts For Mission and Making Disciples
I have complied a single page list of prayer prompts from two sources and added a list of my own. One is the prompts from Shodankeh Johnson from Sierra Leone. That movement has grown like wildfire. The second are prayers against the 7 most common obstacles to movements in America. The last list are my […]
The Barrier of Theological Education to Making Disciples
I am for education. I went to school for quite some time and did a fair amount of graduate work. My wife also has a number of degrees. Needless to say, we love education and could be in school the rest of our lives. Education is good. Please don’t read this and think I am […]
Hear Isaiah 6 In A Whole New Way – Don’t Skip the Process
I don’t know how many times I have read Isaiah 6, quite a few…but the last time I read it I was ready to hear it in a new way. With the focus on discipleship it was hard to not spot a familiar rhythm in the text. Isaiah is in a bad spot – king […]
Jesus Didn’t Say “Go and Plant Churches”
“16 Then the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go. 17 When they saw him, they worshiped him; but some doubted. 18 Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing […]
Church – Warning Shots Were Fired But No One Was Paying Attention
A number of years ago Willow Creek posted the results of their massive internal research – the Reveal study. It showed that the approach that had been the panacea of approaches to church – the program-based attractional church model, was severely flawed. The promise was that building attractive programs to draw people to attending the […]
“Prayer is the Strategy”
I don’t know who I first heard say this. Maybe it was Shodankeh Johnson…but the point is spot on. Often we make strategy without praying. How proud do we have to be to even attempt that? Yet I can say that it is common in my life and common in the church. Shame on me! […]