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How do we disciple within existing bodies of Believers – churches, whatever the form – to establish the DNA of disciples, who make disciples, who make disciples? When discussing movements, establishing new communities is emphasized often to the exclusion of conversations about what we do with existing communities. Working within existing churches is very...
Sometimes our familiarity with Scripture causes us to develop bad studying habits. Instead of carefully reading every word we skim passages, reminding us of what we already know and believe. Unfortunately, bad habits like this cause us to miss things God wants to show us that are applicable for today. This 4 Column Process...
Disobedience is one of the main reasons disciples don’t make disciples and churches don’t replicate churches. Disobedience is also the reason we don’t see transformation at every level: individual, family, community, city, nation. Yet when I talk about obeying the commands of Christ, the first accusation I face is, “You are a legalist.” or...
It isn’t that the existing bodies of Believers in the Western World do not bear fruit – they do – it’s that the fruit they bear often does not have the capacity to become a fruit-bearing vine. Our bodies produce a higher volume of seedless grapes than grape that have seeds. A major part...
When you say ‘church,’ most people have a picture in their head of what church is. That picture is really a snapshot of a moment of time in the life of a particular body of Believers in a particular culture. ’What is Church?’ is a difficult question because church is organic…what it looks like...
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