Excerpted From Deep Discipleship By J.T. English The local church has a discipleship disease. And without the proper diagnosis and treatment plan, we will do more harm than good. Over the past several decades the Western church has noticed alarming symptoms of our local church discipleship disease. Some of these symptoms include people leaving the church, students dropping out […]
How do you lose 7 million people? That was the question the worlds largest Protestant denomination, Southern Baptists, asked themselves at their annual convention in 2018. After two years of leading a team of pastors and ministry leaders who made up a disciple-making task force, I (Robby) couldnt believe our findings about losing church members. As shocking as it […]
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How to Silence the Lies of Your Past and Actually Experience Who God Says You Are (Baker)
Excerpted FromDiscover Your True SelfBy Chip Ingram Let me ask you a couple of very important questions about your identity. First, what is your image of God? A.W. Tozer taught us that we tend by a secret law of the soul to move toward our mental image of God. He also said that what comes […]
A Guide to Digital Discipleship (Zondervan Reflective)
Excerpted FromFrom Social Media to Social MinistryBy Nona Jones As an executive and entrepreneur, I believe sustained success starts with a clearly defined vision by which opportunities are evaluated and from which decisions are made. To put it as Stephen Covey did in The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, we should “begin with the … Continued
Excerpted FromThe Way Up Is DownBy Marlena Graves If I want to be full, open to receiving abundant gracemore human, selflessfirst I must be emptied. He must increase, and I must decrease (John 3:30). The word I discovered is kenosis. Oh, its not that I never heard the word. On the contrary, Im quite familiar with the concept of kenosis self-emptying […]
Excerpted FromNot Done YetBy Beth Seversen The small percent of young adults growing in their faith stand out in a culture of indifference and disillusionment. And this has led me to uncover a new script being written in certain churches scattered across North America. When researching my own denomination, the Evangelical Covenant Church, I discovered […]
Excerpted FromEverywhere You LookBy Tim Soerens From a landscape view of much of the church, at least the church in North America, we can make a case that we are just as much communities with a savior’s complex as we are communities confessing the need for a Savior. But before we beat ourselves up too … Continued
