Four Disciple Making Essentials
You want to make disciples because it was Jesus’ last command and one of the most important expressions of love you could show to another human being. I cannot think of a more important focus. Disciple making is to help a person place his or her faith in Jesus Christ (evangelism, conversion) and then to […]
Discipling Lost People into Salvation
“Metanoesein kai pistos emoi genesesthai!” These were the words of Flavius Josephus to a group of Jewish rebels in 66 A.D., commanding them to abandon their current course of action and to instead come under His command and direction. In English, we recognize His words as, “Repent and believe in me!” To the Christian, this is reminiscent […]
Flip the Script in Disciple Making
Let’s imagine that India and China go to war. Let’s pray they never do, but for the sake of this illustration, the two largest nations in the world are revving up for battle. India decides, “We are only going to send our generals into battle. After all, the generals have the most training, experience, and […]
Making Disciples Among College Students: Q&A
What might a disciple-making movement look like among college students? Recently, RENEW.org’s point leader Bobby Harrington and editorial director Daniel McCoy caught up with two disciple-making leaders who are seeing disciple-making groups multiply effectively among college students and move beyond that to churches. Carl Williamson is a professor of discipleship and church planting at Harding […]
What Is Discipleship?
Discipleship is the state of being a disciple of Jesus Christ. So, what then is a disciple? A disciple is simply a follower or a student of Jesus Christ. When we bring in the depth of New Testament teaching on what it means to be a disciple of Jesus, we can expand the definition of […]
7 Steps to Catalyze A Disciple-Making Movement
Hello, I’m a pastor in North America. I minister to a church and am simultaneously seeking to help catalyze a disciple making movement. Because of the opposition we’ve encountered in our community, I will write under the pseudonym “Brother PK.” I first learned about disciple making movements (DMM) 5 years ago. I was trained by […]
Four Evangelism Lessons From Las Vegas
In 2010 my family started a new church just off the Las Vegas Strip. This month, we are merging with a great church called The Crossing. In between was a wild, God-led, Holy Spirit-fueled journey that saw us baptize 515 people. Almost all of them were far from God and shocked to find themselves in […]
The Dirty Secret of the Mission Field
I got on the airplane ready to take on the world. I was moving to India to be a missionary. I couldn’t wait to save as many lost people as possible in India. About seventeen hours later we landed in New Delhi and I…discovered the dirty secret of the mission field. The same guy you […]
