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A Response to "My Confession About Confession"

#ReimagineDISCIPLESHIP: My Confession About Confession

My Confession About Confession

Phil Miglioratti

The http://Reimagine.Network

I have a confession to make.

My understanding of confession has been too narrow. Not what I teach from the biblical text but how I disciple Christian believers to pursue

#ReimagineSCRIPTURE…as more than reading

#ReimagineDISCIPLESHIP...with Christ at the Center

#Reimagine John 3:16

Millions have memorized this version based on 17th century English:

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”
‭‭John‬ ‭3:16‬ ‭KJV‬‬
https://www.bibl

Resurrrection Power

#ReimagineDISCIPLESHIP..."The Bible is meant to be read in the church, by the church, as the church."

Reading Scripture as the Church: Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Hermeneutic of Discipleship 

by Derek W. Taylor

(New Explorations in Theology)

The Bible is meant to be read in the church, by the church, as the church.

Although the practice of reading Script

#ReimagineDISCIPLESHIP: Jesus Is Our Pattern

Patterning our Lives after Jesus

Catapult.Group (video)

UP Discipleship Questions
● In thinking about the 1st Commandment, where’s my intimacy with God at right now? (Matthew 22:37-40, Deuteronomy 6:5, Luke 10:25-28)
● How am I intentionally spending

#ReimagineDISCIPLESHIP...As “Bulldozer” Kindness * “Who can live this way?”

 
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KINDNESS :  “Love is kind.” (1 Corinthians 13:4)

Corinth was apparently an unkind city, & it looks as if the Corint

Why Reimagine Discipleship?

Why does the Church?

Why do Pastors ... Church Leaders ...

Small Group Directors ... Youth/Children Workers ...?

Need to Reimagine Discipleship?

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#ReimagineDISCIPLESHIP: "In The Way: Church As We Know It Can Be a Discipleship Movement (Again)"

In the Way: Church As We Know It Can Be a Discipleship Movement (Again).

I wrote this book with church leaders and pastors in mind, to explain a disciple-making movement (DMM) strategy and how it can be employed in the Church in the West. This approa

The 7-Story Christian Life.

It All Starts with the Threeness of God

It All Starts with the Threeness of God

NOTE: Christians have been taught to believe in the "Trinity" but I few of us understand what the Bible is reveal ing to us about God's nature. Understanding the "threeness" of God results in:

• Praise - God i

Breakdown of the Disciple Factories

Bt Thom Schultz on HoylSoup.com

The disciple-making machine is broken. Though most church leaders would say discipleship is a crucial part of their mission and ministry, they fear it’s not working.

A recent Barna study revealed that only one perce

#ReimaginePRAYER as Disciple-Making

We all have Prayer Lists.

Phil Miglioratti

Most write their own list. Some simply memorize or visualize who they pray for. Many follow the printed list in the Sunday bulletin. Apps send them to our smartphones.

The difficulty with Prayer Lists is n

Time for a Spiritual Check-Up?

Annual Spiritual Check-up

"Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: Love your neighbor as yourself. All the law and the prophets h

Learning Is Often Preceded by Unlearning

Learning Is Often Preceded by Unlearning

Many people are educated well beyond their capacity for obedience. For those who have grown up in church, it can be easy to assume that learning is the sole way in which we grow as followers of Christ. Sadly

#Reimagine: Alone at the Center

from “The Winding Path Of Transformation” by Jeffrey Tacklind 

an IVPress book

What is a disciple?

What is a disciple of Christ?

Webster dictionary Definition of disciple:

1-      someone who accepts and helps to spread the teachings of a famous person

2-      one of a group of 12 men who were sent out to spread the teachings of Jesus Christ

I fin

Guest Blogger ~ Jim Overholt: "God Is Great"

God is Great

In contemplating the oft-heard phrase “God is great,” and then attempting to elaborate on its meaning in terms that are meaningful to us today, we very quickly run out of superlatives.  The first challenge is that peoples’ understandin