Disciple Making Shift #5 – From Competing Goals to One End Goal

This article on shifting to a singular end goal is Part 5 in a 5-Part series on Jesus-style disciple making. Here’s the Intro, Shift #1, #2, #3, and #4. In our final […]
Disciple Making Shift #4 – From Teaching Information to Teaching Obedience

This article on shifting to teaching obedience is Part 4 in a series on Jesus-style disciple making. Here’s the Intro, Shift #1, #2, and #3. We teach information. We preach […]
Disciple Making Shift #3 – From Professionals to Everyone Reaching the Lost

In our last post, we discovered the second shift to Jesus-style disciple making: from going to church to going to lost people. In this post, we’re going to discover Shift […]
Disciple Making Shift #2 – From Going to Church to Going to Lost People

In our last post, we discovered the first shift to Jesus-style disciple making: from seeing our identity as church members to seeing our identity as disciple makers. In this post, […]
Disciple Making Shift #1: From Church Members to Disciple Makers

Here’s the introduction to this series on 5 shifts to return to Jesus-style disciple making. First, here’s our problem: We want to make disciples but we have a problem. We […]
5 Shifts to Return to Jesus-Style Disciple Making

We all want to make disciples, but we’ve got a problem. Barna, a leading Christian research organization, found only 17% of professing Christians know what the Great Commission is. Exponential […]
The Stages of Disciple Making: Go and Make Disciples (Part 5)

(Here is Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4 in this series on the stages of disciple making.) The fifth phase is the replication phase. Disciples need to be sent […]
The Stages of Disciple Making: “Come Take Up Your Cross” (Part 4)

(Here is Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 in this series on the stages of disciple making.) The fourth phase is often a make-it or break-it phase. Scholars of the […]