Stop Blaming Other Churches
Declining churches often feel that they would be growing, if it weren’t for that one church down the road, but it’s time to stop blaming other churches and seeing them as competition.
How to Build a Discipleship Pathway
Churches are great at filling the calendar. Most churches have no shortage of programs, events, and fellowships. Yet most churches somehow struggle to do the one thing Jesus commissioned us to do: make disciples.
When your church focuses on filling the calendar with programs over creating a streamlined Discipleship Pathway, the people in your church will never be held accountable to grow.
Here are three steps to building a discipleship pathway.
8 Ways Healthy Churches are Killing the Church to Save the Church
So many people fight for the survival of their church at all costs. I’m sure most mean well, but what’s wrong with killing the church to save the church? I should probably explain…as many will undoubtedly voice concern about why we should save the...
Radical Hospitality – Paul’s Discipleship Strategy (Part III)
In my last post, we saw how Paul employed 26 different intense, emotional, and personal elements to be able to disciple and minister with and to the Thessalonian believers. As I continued through the book of 1 Thessalonians I saw that his discipleship and...
26 Aspects of Discipleship – Paul’s Discipleship Strategy (Part II)
As I described in my last post Paul’s discipleship strategy was intense, personal and emotional. Please be sure to read the passage that was described in 1Thessalonians 2:1-19 before continuing. As I reflect on this passage, I notice 26 characteristics of...
