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, [...]
Revisiting Discipleship (Fruit That Remains)
May 9, 2012With the missional emphasis in the past decade, there has been a renewed emphasis in defining the mission of the church. The Great Commission is all about making disciples, but how do we do that? Within the missional genre of literature, there’s a growing stream of resources revisiting the practice of disciple-making, and I’m encouraged [...]
Gospel-Centered Spiritual Formation: The Gospel Forms
April 26, 2012At the conclusion of my last post about the triperspectival framework, I mentioned the role of gospel “forms” in the diagram I created to explain gospel-centered spiritual formation. Before I jump into the perspectives individually, I want to explain what I mean by gospel forms and how those forms overlap to give greater gospel focus [...]
Gospel-Centered Spiritual Formation: The Triperspectival Framework
April 25, 2012In my first post, I provided a little background to the development of this paradigm I’ve created, called gospel-centered spiritual formation. I argued that the literature on spiritual disciplines largely does not factor in the gospel, and gospel-centered literature has yet to address the role of spiritual disciplines in the life of a gospel-centered Christian. [...]
The 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: 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
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 [...]
Fight Clubs by Jonathan Dodson Now Available
August 2, 2009Last month, I mentioned that Jonathan Dodson was making final edits on his new e-book Fight Clubs: Gospel-Centered Discipleship. The Resurgence has just made it available on their website, and I encourage you to download it and check it out. Here are the table of contents: Introduction 1. Why Fight?: The Call to Fight 2. [...]
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