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Four Keys to Building Disciple Making Culture (Dane Allphin) ***Watch here***

New Blogs

Loving a Neighbor Intentionally By Robert Garcia The Resurrection and Renewal in Jesus' Image By Curtis Erskine 5 Steps to Building a Disciplemaking Culture By Dane Allphin

New Podcasts

Vocational Disciple Making in the Trenches (feat Dave Buehring & Kent Chevalier) Your Church's Great Opportunity Making Disciples in Every Vocation (feat. Dave Buehring)

Articles Pursuing Men By David Nelson Helping Your Disciples Discern God's Direction By Matt Dabbs & Bobby Harrington Collective Videos Cultivating Great Commission Fruitfulness with Dan Leitz   Podcasts Lowering the Bar for Small Group Leaders (feat. Greg Ogden and Ralph Rittenhouse

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We want to keep bringing our focus back to the importance of intentionality. The point of being intentional is to do something with purpose and not leaving the outcome up to chance or fate. Being intentional means that you have a specific outcome in mind and that you are taking specific, logical steps in order to achieve that outcome.   Therefore, we not only intentionally attempt to form relationships and make disciples, but we intentionally attempt to produce a specific outcome when we make disciples of Jesus.   But what is that outcome?   Initially, when I (Curtis) was first learning about being a Jesus-style disciple maker, I would have answered that the specific outcome of making disciples of Jesus was to produce disciples that are conformed into the image of Jesus. In fact, Paul wrote that in the life of the believer God works all things toward the purpose of his followers being “conformed to the image of his Son.” (Romans 8:28-29)   However, I am a naturally inquisitive person who believes that no questions are off-limits, so as I continued to personally study discipleship, I asked myself the question of, “Why? Why is it so important that we are conformed into the image of Jesus?”   Click to Read More... For King Jesus, Curtis Erskine and Bobby Harrington Last Week's Show   Transforming & Multiplying Disciples Through Micro Groups Greg Ogden & Ralph Rittenhouse   New Podcasts   What Does Whole Life Discipleship Look Like? David Ferguson & Lewis Alexander How to Live Out Whole Life Discipleship Lewis Alexander New Blogs Living Intentional with Team Chris Knight Never Quit By Justin Jordan How Long Does It Take to Make a Disciple? By Justin Gravitt Milk to Meat By Carmelita Boyce

 

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Forming our lives around Jesus, so that we find salvation and kingdom life in him, is our focus. It is the heart of what it means to be a disciple and make disciples.   Easter is a great time to pause and examine a very important foundation for discipleship in Jesus.   According to Scripture, Easter and the resurrection leads us to imitate and obey Jesus, as His disciples. In our conversion, typified by baptism, the apostle Paul wrote:   “Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.” (Romans 6:3-4)   Not only is our sin and our fallen self put to death with Jesus in His crucifixion, but our new self, which is to be re-made in His image, is resurrected to live like Him. Paul also wrote of the resurrection:   “…Your whole self ruled by the flesh was put off when you were circumcised by Christ, having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through your faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.” (Colossians 2:11-12) Click to Read More... For King Jesus, Curtis Erskine and Bobby Harrington New Podcasts   How To Live Out Whole Life Discipleship In Your Community Lewis Alexander Vocational Disciple Making in the Trenches: A Conversation with the... Dave Beuhring & Kent Chevalier New Blogs Casting a More Compelling Vision Craig Etheredge Intentionally Challenging People to Grow Spiritually John Shaw Oops! Five Disciple Making Missteps Bill Mowry 5 Steps to Building Disciplemaking Culture Dane Allphin

 

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Dear Discipleship-first friends, As a lead pastor, grandfather, and national leader, I am becoming increasingly concerned about discipling our children. What is happening in North America with children is alarming! Like all lifestyle issues, the root solution is a focus on discipleship and disciple making. At Discipleship.org, we put children’s discipleship this way: THE GREAT COMMISSION before the great commission of Matthew 28 is Deuteronomy 6:6-9 These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts.  Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads.  Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates.   Between 80-85% of all people who came to Christ in the last 100 years made their commitment by age 14… now, take a few minutes and think about that truth and the implications of what is happening today… Many churches and Christians are not strong at raising counter-cultural families. Often, family discipleship is weak, the church is not equipping parents and children, and the school systems are developing philosophies that are antagonistic to truths in scripture. What should we do? There are several key responses that we must make. We will be diving into this topic and some important strategies at this year’s National Disciple Making Forum. Click here to learn more about the National Disciple Making Forum. However, we are also going to be diving into these questions in our daily blog posts at Discipleship.org. The first step for many of us is to simply wrap our minds around this topic of discipling our children. To help in this quest, Discipleship.org will be publishing a 3-part blog series by Renee Sproles (from RENEW.org).   Click the link below to read Renee's first blog.

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For King Jesus, Bobby Harrington

New Podcasts

Your Church's Great Opportunity Making Disciples in Every Vocation Dave Buehring Missionizing Your Church to Make Marketplace Disciple Makers Dave Buehring

New Blogs

What is Disciple Making, Precisely? By Justin Gravitt   Intentional Leadership Begins With Intentionally Abiding By Blake Whiteman   Trusting & Being Trustworthy By Hollis Haff   Why Your Church Needs a Weekend Worship Plan By Ken Adams

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DISCIPLESHIP.ORG ~ Championing Jesus-style Disciple Making

How to Make Disciples with Jim Putman
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New Blogs The Crisis in Children's Discipleship By Bobby Harrington   Discipling Children: Planting the Seeds (Part 1) By Renee Sproles   Discipling Children: Providing for the Plant (Part 2) By Renee Sproles   Discipling Children: Protecting the Future (Part 3) Bu Renee Sproles

New Podcasts

Missionizing Your Church to Make Marketplace Disciple Makers Dave Buehring   Hot Topics - Discipling Your Flock To Handle the Issues of Our... Dave Buehring

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How to Ask Good Questions in Discipleship
By Matt Dabbs

We Walk This Together
By Brandon Guindon

Disobeying Jesus' Clear Commands
By Craig Etheredge

Together for the Harvest
By Doug Holliday

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The Empowered Walk
By Brandon Guindon

Why Your Church Needs a Connection Plan
Impact Discipleship Ministries

How Prayer Fuels Disciple Making
By Paul Huyghebaert

Learning the Art of Patience
By Jim Thomas

 

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New Podcasts   The Power of Story to Unlock Authentic Community Cam Washington & Trey Bush Bridging the Gap - Mentoring Across Cultures and Generations Cam Washington

New Blogs Actively Listening to God and Others Denny Heiberg 6 Hindrances to Your Answered Prayers Craig Etheredge Learning the Art of Patience Dr. Jim Thomas

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New Podcasts   Launching a Mentoring Ministry to Reach Your Men and Women Trey Bush Danger of Division and Distraction Jim Putman, Bob Reed, Scott Harris, Joel Owen, Brandon Bowers, & Luke Yetter

New Blogs What's the Difference Between Shepherding & Disciple Making Justin Gravitt Be Teachable Dan Leitz Jesus Calls You to Increasing Levels of Commitment Craig Etherdge Doing My Part: Setting the Table Joel Owen

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Discipleship-first Friends, How do you have hard conversations? So much of intentional relational disciple making is dealing with difficulties. It is essential to follow the Spirit of Jesus when we are discipling people. But how do you do it? I hope you will find the words of Curtis Erskine, my friend and co-worker to be as helpful as I find them to be. More importantly, I hope they will help you to follow Jesus’ heart in conflicts. -Bobby Harrington     10 Steps to Having Christ-Like Conversations In Difficult Circumstances  Both of my children have what used to be called Asperger’s but is now generally referred to as high functioning autism. If you want God to teach you patience, have two kids with Asperger’s. My daughter was the toughest one to figure out what exactly was going on with her. She doesn’t exhibit some of what you would consider to be the well-known behaviors of Asperger’s. She is very social, vocal, and emotional. When we received the diagnosis for my daughter, we automatically realized that our son would likely receive the same diagnosis, except his Asperger’s is more stereotypical (think Sheldon on Big Bang Theory or Young Sheldon). Needless to say, I have difficulty communicating with my children at times. In fact, our difficulty in communicating with my daughter was what drove us to seek help. More importantly however, it drove me to prayer. After we received her diagnosis, I specifically prayed, “God, I know that there is a way for me to communicate better with my daughter, and I know the answer is in the Bible and probably in the direct words and teachings of Jesus; please help me find it.” A few weeks later I found myself in a communication class put on through the secular company for which I work. The class was based on the book, Crucial Conversations. Given the overall “woke” philosophy of the company I work for, I didn’t have very high expectations. However, about halfway through the training, I started getting interested. The reason that my interest was piqued was that I began to find correlations between what was being taught in the class and what Jesus said on the Sermon on the Mount. For instance: “If you have done something wrong or offended the other person, first apologize,” correlates to: “[If] brother or sister has something against you. . . First go and be reconciled to them.” (Matthew 5:23-24) “Deescalate arguments. Failure to deescalate arguments can cause you to lose more than the argument,” correlates to “Settle matters quickly with your adversary who is taking you to court. Do it while you are still together on the way, or your adversary may hand you over to the judge, and the judge may hand you over to the officer, and you may be thrown into prison. Truly I tell you, you will not get out until you have paid the last penny.” (Matthew 5:25-26) Click to Read More... For King Jesus, Curt Erskine   New Podcasts   Fatigue in Ministry Jim Putman, Scott Harris & Joel Owen Not Your Grandmother's Theology Megan Rawlings     New Blogs What is a Disciple? Three Key Characteristics Bobby Harrington   The Death of Pride Jim Thomas 4 Upsides to Doing Life with Other Men Jeff Whitlock Why You Need a Discipleship Plan Ken Adams Intentional Relationships Chris Knight Building a Ministry Team - Identifying Your Disciple Makers Craig Etheredge   We would love for you to join us this October along with other disciple makers at our national gathering! Copyright © 2022 Discipleship.org, All rights reserved.