Resources by Bobby Harrington:
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 out to become disciple makers themselves. They have been trained to be like their teacher (Luke 6:40). Note, the multiplication phase continues to require growth—we...
Bobby Harrington
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 Gospel of Mark teach us that when Jesus took his disciples to the district of Caesarea Philippi it was a fundamentally important turning point in...
Bobby Harrington
The Stages of Disciple Making: “Come and Be with Me” (Part 3)
(Here is Part 1 and Part 2 in this series.) The third phase in which Jesus raised up disciple makers is punctuated by a night of prayer. Luke 6:12-13 shows this inflection point—in a ministry that began with forty days of fasting and prayer and regularly showed a daily focus on prayer—as Jesus seeks the...
Bobby Harrington
The Stages of Disciple Making: “Come and Follow Me” (Part 2)
(For Part 1, “Come and See,” click here.) The next phase in Jesus’ strategy to develop disciple makers occurred when he moved from Nazareth to Capernaum. This town becomes the home base of his public ministry. It was a town of two to three thousand people in the first century, on the shores of the...
Bobby Harrington
The Stages of Disciple Making: “Come and See” (Part 1)
Jesus took three and a half years before commissioning his disciples as disciple makers. His disciple making combined grace + truth + time and can be understood in five phases. His disciples started as non-believers and ended as disciple makers and church leaders. So, what were the phases of Jesus’ disciple making master plan? A...
Bobby Harrington
Developing a Prayer and Fasting Culture: A Q&A with David Roadcup and Bobby Harrington
Is your church waking up from the uneasy peace we have often made with the way things are? Are you and your church ready to move beyond maintaining membership rolls to seriously pursuing revival? For Christians ready for revival, it’s time to reintroduce the spiritual disciplines of prayer and fasting—not as sporadic regularities but as...
Church Leader, We Are So Thankful for You
Dear friends, If you’re a church leader in 2020, wherever you have served, it has been a tough year. Well done. When we think of you, these words of Paul come to mind: “We always thank God for all of you and continually mention you in our prayers. We remember before our God and Father...
Discipling Group for a Pandemic?
At Renew.org we believe that Jesus-style disciple making is the core mission of the church. It includes reaching lost people (evangelism) and forming people into the image of Jesus (maturation). But how do we make disciples when we are having trouble even gathering with the church? Many people are joining online instead of in person....
Bobby Harrington
A Four-Word Solution to Reach a Divided Nation
Chances are, you might be ticked off at roughly half of America right now. Whichever way you voted on Election Tuesday, you are probably asking—when thinking about the other candidate—”How in the world could that many millions of Americans have voted for that guy?!” Polarization is nothing new for the United States. Remember the Federalists...
The Inspiration of the New Testament
*Editor’s Note: This is Part 2 of a series on the Bible, its formation, and its trustworthiness. For Part 1 (“The Inspiration of the Old Testament”), click HERE. Do we have good reasons to think that the New Testament is divine in origin and intended by God to be an authoritative guide for our lives...
5 Questions for Bobby Harrington: A Renew.org Update
*Editor’s Note: Renew.org will soon be three years old. We interviewed Bobby Harrington, one of the co-founders and the point leader of Renew.org on the progress of the network. Q: What is the most exciting thing about the Renew.org Network? The answer, hands down, is God’s provision. God has provided again, again, and again. Three years ago,...
Bobby Harrington
A Leadership Training Manual on Avoiding the Ditches
*Editor’s Note: We will be giving away a copy of An Authentic Experience to each registrant at the Renew.org Gathering on October 15, in Franklin, TN. Here is why it is an important resource for us to feature. [Click HERE to learn more about the Gathering.] We at Renew.org are convinced that disciple making is...
On Gender and the Bible: Can Women Be Elders? (Part 5)
“If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.” —Margaret Thatcher. “Women have discovered that they cannot rely on men’s chivalry to give them justice.” —Helen Keller. “It’s time to see what I can do, to test the limits and break through, no right, no wrong, no rules...
The Inspiration of the Old Testament
Flavius Josephus, a Jewish historian during the first century AD discussed the Hebrew Scriptures in the time of Jesus in an apologetic work written against a non-Jew named Apion. Josephus writes about the superiority of the Hebrew Scriptures over pagan writings in his work, Against Apion (1.8). For example, Josephus argues in this defense of...
Reasons for Church Decline in the West
*Editor’s Note: Recently, Dr. Carol Swain interviewed Dr. Bobby Harrington on her podcast Be the People. They talked about the post-Christian trajectory we are experiencing in the US, as well as the need for Renew.org in these confusing times. This is the second of two articles excerpted from their conversation. For Part 1, click here. ...
On Gender and the Bible: Does God Allow Women Preachers in 1 Timothy 2? (Part 4)
This is another in-depth post where we examine what the Word of God teaches about men and women in the church. This the fourth installment and it is focused on the vitally important teaching of 1 Timothy 2. We will continue to engage with John Mark Hicks’s book, Women Serving God: My Journey in Understanding...