There are two types of churches. There are map churches, and there are menu churches. A menu church is a church that offers a variety of classes and programs that people can pick and choose from. A menu church is very much like a buffet or cafeteria where you select...
Most churches do a great job of making partially trained disciples. Only a few make fully trained disciples. In fact, I’m guessing only a few churches even understand the concept of a “fully trained” disciple. Let’s start with the words of Jesus in Luke 6:40: “A...
The answer is “yes!” Your church can be a multiplying movement. In my last blog I discussed four essential questions you need to ask concerning your church. The first question was whether or not your church was a movement of addition or multiplication. To be clear,...
If the goal of the church is to be a disciple making church there are at least four essential questions that must be answered. The answers to these four questions will reveal whether or not you will succeed at becoming a church that makes disciples the way Jesus did....
Thirty-one years ago I planted a church knowing that the goal was to eventually see that church become a movement of multiplying disciples. I had never been in a church that was committed to disciple making so I wasn’t that sure how to do it. I had also just graduated...
