Last week, we finished the first installment [Nov/Dec 2011] of the Roots Reading Initiative focused on the mission of the church. In this installment, we read What Is the Mission of the Church? by Greg Gilbert and Kevin DeYoung (November) and Everyday Church by Steve Timmis and Tim Chester. With each week, discussion questions are made [...]
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The Outworking of the Gospel [Roots Reading Initiative]
January 4, 2012The Discipleship Downline
November 29, 2011Make » Mature » Multiple Disciples. 37 years to reach the world for Christ.
Downline Builder | Discipleship
November 21, 2011This has to be one of the most creative and cool resources I’ve seen in a long time as it relates to the church. I can see how this web-based application could serve churches in numerous ways. Check out the Downline Builder by Downline Ministries. HT: GCD While we’re on the topic of discipleship videos, [...]
Triperspectival Church Structures
November 7, 2011I’ve come to find that healthy churches make disciples in multiple venues, namely church gathered (large group), church scattered (small group), and life-on-life (one-on-one). From a triperspectival approach, church gathered focus on the normative perspective (prophetic), church scattered focuses on the existential perspective (priestly), and the life-on-life focuses on the situational perspective (kingly). Church gathered [...]
Gospel-Centered Discipleship Website Is Live
September 21, 2011The new Gospel-Centered Discipleship website is live. Spearheaded by Jonathan Dodson and Winfield Bevins, this website is going to provide a wealth of theologically rich and practically relatable resources on the crux of the Church’s mission, viz., the work of making disciples in and through the power of the gospel. As their website explains, “GCD [...]
J.I. Packer’s “Three Facets of Faith” or Triperspectival Catechesis
September 2, 2011J.I. Packer, in his excellent book, Grounded in the Gospel: Building Believers the Old-Fashioned Way, unpacks the practical out workings of the “the glorious Gospel of our blessed God” in what he calls the “three facets of faith.” Here is how Packer explains it: “The essential content of the Faith, then, includes first of all [...]
Gospel-Centered Discipleship: Great New Resource!
July 6, 2011At the very heart of the church’s mission is the call to make disciples. At the very heart of the Christian faith is the gospel of Jesus Christ. It makes sense then that these two passions ought to become the focus of our lives. Not only that, we should seek to understand how the gospel [...]
This is discipling.
June 30, 2011A great little video which packs a big punch. From the FourSquare Church: HT :: Caesar Kalinowski
Monday is for “kingly” administration: Disciple-Making Delegation
November 29, 2010Previous posts on disciple-making in “kingly” administration series: » Disciple-Making Structures » Disciple-Making Venues The goal of discipleship is not only maturity and growth, but exercising gifts while being equipped for ministry. Delegation is an art, and those in leadership responsible for the decentralization of the mission need to not only be competent in the [...]
What is a disciple?
November 27, 2010“With the world under his feet, with heaven in his eye, with the gospel in his hand and Christ in his heart, he pleads as an ambassador for God, knowing nothing but Jesus Christ, enjoying nothing but the conversion of sinners, hoping for nothing but the promotion of the kingdom of Christ, and glorying in [...]
GCM Everyday Audio
November 26, 2010Last month, he GCM Collective held a one-day training focused on the gospel, community, and mission in everyday contexts. Steve Timmis and Tim Chester has a new book coming out soon on the “ordinary” church–living as gospel communities on mission in everyday life, not just Sunday’s. The audio from this one-day conference is not available, [...]
Monday is for “kingly” administration: Disciple-Making Venues
November 15, 2010Last week, I talked about disciple-making structures, emphasizing church gathered (attractional), church scattered (missional), and leadership development (training). This week I want to take a little different angle at disciple-making at discuss the three venues, namely large gathering (macro), small gathering (micro), and one-to-one (organic). A church with a healthy emphasis on disciple-making will leverage [...]
Monday is for “kingly” administration: Discipleship Structures
November 8, 2010It’s been a little while since my last post on “kingly” administration, but I thought I’d pick things back up again (after the prodding of several friends). The big picture of these systems has been along the lines of what I call the “commission continuum”. This is the “metaprocess” in the life of a “great [...]
Disciple-Making and Cultural Transformation
October 27, 2010Below is a video of Kevin DeYoung, Greg Gilbert, and Ryan Kelly talking about the mission of the church. DeYoung and Gilbert have a forthcoming book coming out on this subject, and it will certainly be one worth reading. However, I think Doug Wilson is on to something about seeing things a little differently as [...]
When the Bible Calls You Stupid
June 8, 2011This past Sunday, I taught our congregation on the profitability of God’s Word from 2 Timothy 3:16-17. The Apostle Paul brings out four categories where Scripture is profitable for the believer: teaching, reproof, correction, and training in righteousness. The first two categories address Scripture being profitable for our beliefs (orthodoxy), and the latter two address [...]
Categories: Discipleship, I Love the Local Church, Personal Commentary
Tags: Correction, Counseling, Reproof, Scripture, Sufficiency of Scripture
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