discipleship
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More Than Seen: The Better News of Being Known—and Indwelled
I feel so seen is a phrase I hear often, and being seen by God is real and good. But it is not the fullest expression of divine love. It is good to be seen, better…
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Why Multiplication Feels So Far Away
After nearly twenty years of praying for multiplication in Austin, I have come to think the barrier is not our structures or our strategies. The root is fear, and we seem to be really, really scared…
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When Life Seems Strange
Leaving The Austin Stone for the Greater Austin Mission Society has felt uncertain, disorienting, and foreign, and I kept telling myself life should not feel this way. But Scripture calls us strangers and exiles on the…
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Jesus Has All Authority—Stop “Releasing” People to Do Ministry
If you are in Christ, you have been commissioned, and you do not need a second opinion or a stamp of approval to make disciples. A friend recently told me he wanted to do that in…
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Extra Ordinary Prayer
Praying with groups across Austin these last weeks, I have found embers of the Spirit’s presence but not yet a fire. Extraordinary prayer is just extra ordinary, so whatever is ordinary for you, add something extra.…
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Lost and Led: Learning to Trust Jesus in the Unknown
Even the best human guide will eventually fail us, or give good counsel at the wrong time. I learned that standing lost in the lobby of my daughter’s dance competition, the only dude in a sea…
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Building a Disciple-Making Culture
This post was originally published at the SEND Network website here. Building a Disciple-Making Culture Many people much smarter than me have wrestled with the question “what is culture?” At the heart of it though, culture…
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The Essentials of Disciple Making
The following article was originally posted on the SEND Network site here. I am ecstatic that much of the conversation in church planting and church leadership has been moving towards the topic of discipleship. Books are…
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Church Discipline – FAQ
Much of what I have written here in the past focuses on the formative work of discipline in the church – discipleship. Within Scripture, however, we also find another form of corrective discipline, commonly called “church…
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The Outcome of Church Discipline
Much of what I have written here in the past focuses on the formative work of discipline in the church – discipleship. Within Scripture, however, we also find another form of corrective discipline, commonly called “church…
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The Process of Church Discipline
Much of what I have written here in the past focuses on the formative work of discipline in the church – discipleship. Within Scripture, however, we also find another form of corrective discipline, commonly called “church…
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The Heart Behind Church Discipline
Much of what I have written here in the past focuses on the formative work of discipline in the church – discipleship. Within Scripture, however, we also find another form of corrective discipline, commonly called “church…