I’ve been hanging out in 1 Thessalonians this week for devotional meditations, and one of the things that surfaced after multiple readings is how often Paul employs the phrase “as you yourselves know” or simply “you know.” When you take a look through his letters, I believe it can be argued that the majority of [...]
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Revisiting Discipleship (As You Yourselves Know)
May 18, 2012Revisiting Discipleship (The Three I’s)
May 14, 2012Revisiting discipleship, I have found three “I’s” that shape the methodological convictions of a robust commitment to disciple-making. Let me explain them briefly. Intentional The goal for every Christian is Christ-likeness. Therefore everything we do in the church corporately and in our investments individually should intentionally be driven with that purpose/goal in mind. In Galatians, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The Transfer of the Gospel
October 25, 2010On October 3, our church launched our first daughter church. It was a great moment as we have worked over the past two years to transition into being a church planting church. I had the privilege of preaching at Grace that morning, and in light of the launch of our first daughter church, I decided [...]
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