Any version of the Christian life that fails to insist on this aspect of discipleship is based on a diluted gospel. Part of lack of attention to cross bearing discipleship is due to a distorted understandings of its meaning.
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Paining, Gaining and the Lottery: What’s Our Task?
Spiritual transformation isn’t our task, but it involves our compliance. We present ourselves to the pressure of the Potter’s strong hands.
Digital Discipleship? 11 Intentional Steps to Get You Started
The very thing Jesus told His church to do was to make disciples, and if people are spending their time online, the church should be there making them into disciples: digital disciples.
The Great Calling of the Church: Discipleship
Discipleship is the great calling of the church, and the only soil that grows disciples is a local church culture of spiritual formation. Every other ministry of the church can (and should) grow from this soil.
Without Discipleship, Your Church Is the Fellowship of Low Expectations
Discipleship, we suppose, is for those few super-saints called into the ministry, and so we are trapped in the fellowship of low expectations.
Why plant churches? To make disciples!
Discipleship is the great calling of the church, and the only soil that grows disciples is a local church culture of spiritual formation. Why plant churches? To make disciples!