Check out Frank Viola's article, "Why We're Getting Discipleship Wrong", and then share your thoughts (pros/cons). The link follows: Why We're Getting Discipleship Wrong.
I'm looking forward to reading your feedback.
Margie Williamson
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Read more…Autobiographical Statement: Greg McCabe holds a Master of Divinity degree, and has been in ministry for 18 years serving as an evangelist to motorcyclists, missions pastor, associate pastor and senior pastor. His desire is to see churches make discip
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On staff with The Navigators of Canada for the past 19 years responsible for resources and training in relation to church-based discipleship.
One Life by Scot McKnight
Zondervan 2010
I like a lot of what Scot McKnight wri
Read more…I didn't know how I was going to feel when one of my parents were called Home to be with the Lord! I cannot tell you the Peace I have experienced since my Father died in May. My Mother and I were there at the end and I have never had the breakdown
Read more…Reviewer: Jill Potts Jones is wife and mom to two daughters, ages 20 and 6. She writes book reviews for numerous Christian publishers and authors.
Title: 30 Days to A More Dynamic Prayer Life
Author: John Franklin
Publisher: NavPress, 2012
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Read more…My church is waking up to the steady decline of participation, commitment and membership. We want to redefine our "purpose" as a church, and along with want to start a group to learn to be true disciples of our Lord Jesus. Can anyone share what has
Read more…Reviewer: Brian Fletcher holds an M.Div and D. Min from Covenant Theological Seminary. After spending 14 years on staff at Young Life, he became a pastor at Spring Run Presbyterian Church in Midlothian, VA. Brian has three kids, loves to fish, and
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Read more…Reviewer: Keith Brown works in interim ministry. He is dedicated to turning around small dying churches by raising up elders, deacons and other leaders through personal relationship and mentoring. This is done through establishing healthy patterns o
Read more…Communication with wife non existsnt Married 6 months and she is so set in her ways that she cannot listen to anyones opinion! Every suggestion I make turns into an arguement or you can tell she is unhappy with it and just goes along with it to appea
Read more…The greek word for disciple is (MATHETES) which means one who learns instructions from another. It was used in secular Greek world for an apprentice to tradesman. A disciple was not only a pupil but an adherent, hence they were spoken of as imitators
Read more…In my hunger for becoming a disciplemaker, I found Dallas Willard's The Great Omission written in 2006. He says "I often tell people I can give them one verse that is worth more than any college education, and it is Joshua 1:8. It will guarantee them
Read more…Forgiveness is Not saying in any way that a wrong is right. Forgiveness does Not take away the consequences of the wrong either with the victim or the doer of the wrong. Forgiveness does Not solve all the relationship problems caused by the wrong. Fo
Read more…I grew up in Mali West Africa where my parents were missionaries. At age six I went about 700 miles away to boarding school in Mamou Guinea. This was a boarding school for missionary kids. About seventy five percent of the children who attended there
Read more…Just curious as to how many of you miss the Discipleship Journal magazine? I have almost every issue from number 25 to the last one they put out. I have read and re-read them many times, and have even used many of the articles as Bible study lesson
Read more…I don't know about you but while I was being discipled, I never heard anything about my mentors going through a crisis of faith. Sometimes I think that believers go through crises of faith and perhaps fall away because they don't know how to get thr
Read more…Through the years, I have found and continue to find solace in coming to know and knowing my Creator in His letter(s) to me, to you, to us.
I have been of the mind, this part of my relationship with Him has been and was His purpose to capture me. I
I've been working on a Christmas lesson and the words that continue to resonate with me are that Jesus became "The living expression" of God. What a great way to approach this Christmas season!
What words or phrase will you take into this season as
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