Thursday is for Discipleship Sometimes you hear a song and your heart cries out, “Oh God, help me live that way.” This is one of those songs for me. I hope to create/motivate a band of believers at Trinity Church in Watseka, IL who resonate with its lyrics and passion and, before I die, a … More The People of God Should Never Live for Something as Small as the American Dream
Monday Discussion Last week (Feb. 2012), in my weekend links I included an article with the provocative title, “Why Churches Should Euthanize their Small Groups“. There are some radical ideas, at least some will consider them radical. But there are questions and issues that need to be addressed with regard to the way small groups … More Are Small Groups Keeping Us from Making Disciples?
Thursday is for Discipleship Found this post a couple of weeks ago and included it in my weekend links post last weekend. It is a great one. I don’t know Tim Gaydos, but I like the way he thinks (and acts) as a gospel herald. Tim has a couple of other interesting sounding posts over … More Taking Over the Neighborhood for Christ without Being Weird
Thursday is for Discipleship Have you ever noticed that some Christians are annoying? Of course you have. Have you ever noticed that sometimes you are that annoying Christian? I hope you have. I used to tell people (jokingly) in our church that we purposefully put one annoying believer in every small group, just to give … More Bonhoeffer’s Take on Christian Unity
Thursday is for Discipleship What bubbles need to be burst in our thinking about making disciples / discipleship / spiritual formation? Rules: 50 words or less; unlimited number of comments.
Thursday is for Discipleship A few months ago, I had a conversation with a woman who had some serious questions about evangelism and discipleship and how the two worked together. If you have spent any time reading here in the blog, you know that my own perspective is that dividing the task of “making disciples” … More “Why Do We Need Words for the Gospel?”
Wednesday Discussion “And rising very early in the morning, while it was still dark, he departed and went out to a desolate place, and there he prayed.” (Mark 1:35) “But he would withdraw to desolate places and pray.” (Luke 5:16 ESV) Rising early in the morning to pray seems to have been a habit with … More A Night Owl’s Yearning to Be a Morning Person
We’ve got it all wrong and we have to get it right because it is the mission of the church to Make Disciples. See link below and join the discussion. We’ve Got Discipleship All Wrong.
Thursday is for Discipleship It’s A.D. 51 and a month or two months ago the Apostle Paul had planted the church in Thessalonica. Now he’s in Corinth and he pens 1 Thessalonians to encourage the saints there in their new faith in Christ. What this means is that when we look at 1 Thessalonians, we … More Launching New Believers for Transformational Futures
Thursday is for Discipleship How Did Jesus Make Disciples? I think we can see the outlines of the process in the pages of the gospels. The term I use to describe that process is “intentional withness.” There was a “with me” quality to Jesus’ interaction and training of the disciples. Jesus choose them, then spent no … More What If We Did Spiritual Formation Like Jesus?
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