4 Ways Discipleship is Broken in the U.S. Church
Somewhere along the way, the church started thirsting for other things. This reveals a broader trend where discipleship is broken, shifting focus away from lasting life-change.
Discipleship and Spiritual Growth
A Life of Love
The invitation is not to begin with external markers of success. It is to first receive. To first wait on God’s life and healing before we heal others.
The Weight of Shells
To redeem our memories, we must begin where we are least likely to go, the place that we feel is least relevant in the here and now.
Just for a Season
Just for a Season, Grandmom and Grandad’s Louisiana table will always be my favorite table, carved walnut and long enough for their four kids to bring their kids who also brought theirs. It was the living table of a great-grandmother, and she set it with southern precision, in decadent layers of greenery and understated class.
Does Your View of Heaven Match Jesus’?
"The heavens" also carried another important meaning in the ancient world, and the View of Heaven shapes how we understand the dwelling place of God in Scripture.
More Than You Were Meant to Carry: Understanding Emotional Baggage
The antidote to pride is still humility, but a kind of humility thats different from what were used to. We typically think of humility as thinking lowly of oneself, and we dont struggle to think lowly of ourselves when carrying emotional baggage.
Practice the Language of Christ
Every person we translate Jesus to has two options: to follow Him or stay where they are. We do our part in prayer and partnership with Jesus to practice the language of Christ.
How and When to Memorize Scripture
No matter what method you use for memorizationnotecards, apps, the first letter method, writing or listening to the Word, or reciting it in the showerrepetition will be a necessary ingredient for how to memorize scripture.
Free to Fail
We dont live by faith by reading a rule book, or following a map, or working through a career development program. We do not begin with things, or pieces of paper, or ideas, or feelings, or deeds, or successes. Anyone who has learned the first thing about freedom to fail prefers to fail with Peter than to succeed with Judas.
Making Discipleship Central to Faith
If Jesus says being a disciple and making disciples is the main thing, then making disciples central to faith is the main thing for us. But what in the world does this look like?
