November 2018 Blog Theme: Finishing the Race of Disciple Making The choice to make disciples is the choice to multiply your life. It is the choice to think beyond your own interests and yourself, and begin to look at the bigger picture of God’s work on the earth and how you can play a part in […]
November 2018 Blog Theme: Finishing the Race of Disciple Making Making disciples is a marathon, not a sprint. It is a life-long commitment, not a spontaneous fad that withers over time. Over the years, I have seen people begin with a fiery passion to walk with God, reach their world and invest in a few, only […]
November 2018 Blog Theme: Finishing the Race of Disciple Making As you invest your life in people, some will disappoint you. There will be people you poured your life into who never really take hold of Jesus and follow Him completely. There will be some that start strong but fall away. Others will oppose you and […]
November 2018 Blog Theme: Finishing the Race of Disciple Making Dietrich Bonhoeffer grew up in an upper middle-class German family of doctors and scientists. So when he told his parents that he wanted to study theology, they were not that excited. Dietrich later became one of the world’s foremost theologians and thinkers of the 20th century. […]
November 2018 Blog Theme: Finishing the Race of Disciple Making William Law was born at Kings Cliffe, Northhamptonshire, England in 1686. He was a well-educated, Cambridge man who loved the Lord and served Him faithfully. Because of his unwillingness to compromise his convictions by signing an Oath of Allegiance to new Hanoverian sovereign, George I, Law […]
July 2018 Blog Theme: How to Make Disciples Who Make Disciples In the early 1990’s, a new brand of business management theory began to gain traction. C.K. Prahalad and Gary Hamel wrote an article entitled, “The Core Competence of the Corporation”, in which they taught that healthy companies have certain core competencies or skills that distinguish […]
July 2018 Blog Theme: How to Make Disciples Who Make Disciples Ignace Jan Paderewski (1860-1941), was a prodigy pianist and composer. He took piano lessons at age six. He entered the Warsaw Conservatory at age twelve, and by eighteen, he was appointed as a professor. He was a Master piano composer and concert performer; mesmerizing audiences […]
July 2018 Blog Theme: How to Make Disciples Who Make Disciples After you’ve had individual conversations with potential disciples (see more about this in Week Three of Investing in a Few), it’s time to gather these new disciples into a group. Years ago, there was quite a bit of discussion among disciple-makers as to whether discipleship should […]
March 2018 Blog Theme: Multiplying Disciples Jesus’ final phase in His disciple-making strategy was multiplication. At this point in Jesus’ ministry, He pulled His disciples to a remote city in the far northern region of Israel, at the base of Mount Hermon, Caesarea Philippi. The region of Caesarea Philippi had a long history of pagan worship, […]
March 2018 Blog Theme: Multiplying Disciples Let’s go back up to the mountain in Galilee. Jesus is casting His global vision to His disciples. He said, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and […]
