I know lots of churches that are doing a good job assimilating people into community, but very few churches are good at moving people into a disciple making core. In fact, most churches are content with assimilating people into a group, serving, and membership. Those are all great steps, but they still fall short of […]

After spending a week of training pastors and leaders in disciple making, I can tell you that the Church in the Dominican Republic is hungry to make disciples. Rarely do you find so many leaders as interested and excited about making disciples as I saw this week. The potential for disciple making  in the Dominican […]

I’ve met some pastors over the years that seem content with drawing a crowd. If they have a good weekend service with plenty of people present, they have hit their goal. They have mission success! If the mission of Jesus is simply to draw a big crowd, then the weekend service becomes the main thing. […]

There seems to be a lot of debate in the church world about the best way to reach people. The crazy thing is that the more we debate, the less people we seem to be reaching. Personally, I feel like it is another trick of the enemy to get our eye off the ball. Our […]

Making disciples that make more disciples is not easy, but it’s also not that complicated. In fact, one of the hardest things you will ever do is to try and teach someone to live like Jesus and then to help that person turn around and teach others to do the same thing. If making disciples […]

I’ve heard lots of sermons over the years, and lots of them have covered managing your money. But I’ve only heard a few on managing your body. I find that interesting, especially since the body is the temple of the Holy Spirit for the believer. I think a little more information on temple-maintenance and management […]

Chosen Accountability for Besetting Sin Being accountable helps us to encourage one another to be steadfast in living out our faith. Steadfast living is becoming “fit” in terms of our walk with Christ. Sin has a way of provoking us into wrong thoughts and actions. Being accountable with prayer and fasting can help us win the battle […]

The end of a passing year and the beginning of a new year is a great time to take stock of your life. An annual time of evaluation is an important way to see if you are living a purposeful life. It is a great way to see if you’ve lived your life for the […]

Last night, I had an awesome experience. I went to a dental office for a discipleship group. Yes, you heard me right: I went to a dental office for a discipleship group. I did not go to a church, a house, or a restaurant. I went to a place where they work on teeth! In […]

I have a huge question to ask you: If you knew that meeting with three people every week over the next year to talk about becoming more like Jesus would lead to each of them taking three more people and doing the same thing the next year, would you do it?  Take a minute to […]