How should the church adapt its discipleship to an ever increasing mobile society?
How should the church adapt its discipleship to an ever increasing mobile society?
How should the church adapt its discipleship to an ever increasing mobile society?
I am working on a sermon/teaching. I have THREE QUESTIONS I want to ask:
1. Are you READY (competent, confident, committed) to tell disciples, IMITATE ME when it comes to living the Christian life well (as Paul did)?
2. Why/Why not?
3. If not, what
Read more…How do we speak boldly about Jesus without speaking loudly? I listened to a podcast of Charles Stanley and his son - Andy was stating we mostly pray for blessings and for the sick. That lesson touched me dearly! I try to speak calmly but I have been
Read more…Noted Christian researcher/author George Barna writes, "By spiritual champions, I mean individuals who have embraced Jesus Christ as their Savior and Lord; accept the Bible as truth and as the guide for life; and seek to live in obedience to its prin
Read more…Jesus was the greatest disciple maker who has ever lived. How did He begin?
Though Jesus had many who followed, He chose only twelve ordinary men with a mixture of backgrounds and personalities to be His disciples. Jesus’ entire ministry depended up
I have been going through the Real-Life Discipleship course, and it has been a big help. Just curious, there's no mention of genders when it talks about discipling relationships. Is it all right for men to disciple women, or vice versa?
Read more…I have recently finished this book and it deserves a real in depth look at what Jesus has told us and how the American Christian life measures up to it. The author, David Platt is a pastor of a growing church in Birmingham, Alabama who stopped to rea
Read more…I would appreciate any thoughts and/or suggestions for a wide-margin Bible for in-depth studies. Thanks so very much. tonyb
Read more…Make disciples, is it an order to a group or to everyone who become a christian ?
Read more…A popular idea is that Jesus is a friend to everyone; but who does Jesus himself say his friends are? If you take a minute to look up his words in John 15:14, you will find that he said: “You are my friends if you do what I command.” If that i
Read more…My heart is breaking. Lately, I have been hearing about several situations in a church where marriages are splitting up and as the spouses go off to do something to further destroy their marriage, they are proclaiming that "The Holy Spirit is leadi
Read more…I was reading 1 Corinthians 2 this morning and found myself stopping to meditate on verse 16. I thought I'd share the question that came to mind and see what your thoughts are...
What does it mean to have the mind of Christ?
Read more…My church is hosting an interfaith service to include Muslim, Jewish, "Yoga," Catholic, and a smattering of various Christian denominations. I have some mixed feelings. What do others think of these kind of events?
The crisis at the heart of the church is that we talk about making disciples, but we seldom do it.
Making disciples is not just for pastors, ministers, or super Christians. Making disciples is the responsibility, privilege and great joy intended
Read more…Just lost a loved one and would like words of encouragement from the Bible.
Read more…I am a leaader in a small international church in the Netherlands, we have a very diverse group of people attending in a very diverse community that attracks many international students and expat business people.
We are looking for the best Investi
Read more…The following is an excerpt from the document entitled The Cape Town Commitment: A Confession of Faith and a Call To Action from the Third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization conducted last fall.
Some 4,000 leaders from 198 countries attended
THESE DAYS I CAN NOT STOP TO WONDER.......IS THIS THE CHURCH JESUS CHRIST DIED FOR? THERE IS SO MUCH DECAY AND RUT IN THE GLOBAL CHURCH TODAY. AS THE LORD GRATS ME OPEN DOOR AND PRIVELEDGE TO SHARE HIS WORD AROUND, ALL I CAN SEE IS SERIOUS DECAY. SI
Read more…Would love to hear your thoughts about this video. Simple. Short. Powerful.
Video: http://coregroups.org/videos.html
Read more…Just thought I'd post an update on our church's progress toward higher disciple participation. We are moving in a positive direction. We've been incorporating the Jesus Christ Disciplemaker model into several places in our ministry. We led works
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