discipleship
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The Theology 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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A Primer on 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 Triperspectival Content of Biblical Leadership
A leader instructs the head, shepherds the heart, and coaches the hands, which means teaching doctrine, forming character, and giving practical steps toward obedience. Every leader has a bent toward one of the three. The biblical…
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Meeting People Where They Are
Understanding how to speak God’s word into a particular person’s circumstances is what distinguishes a visionary from a biblical leader. Jesus does it with the Samaritan woman in John 4, and doing it in American culture…
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Where Jesus Wants Us To Go
The second half of the definition comes first, because where Jesus wants people to go is what grounds everything else. That destination is the Great Commission, the model is the way Jesus invested in the first…
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What is Biblical Leadership?
Biblical leadership is meeting someone where they are, and taking them where Jesus wants them to go. That definition came out of a seminary assignment and has held up across discipleship, leadership development, and organizational leadership…
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Parenting, Education and Mission
Recently, I was chatting with a member of our church who has been intentionally living on mission for several years amongst unreached people groups in Austin. He has children that are similar in age to mine,…
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Discipleship and Leadership Development
Leaders are made primarily through intentional, life on life discipleship, and only secondarily through the systems that help a church accomplish ministry. That distinction gets tested when the numbers do not cooperate, when 500 people want…
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The Difficulty of Balancing Ministry and Discipleship
I’ve found that it can be extremely difficult to continually cultivate the centrality of discipleship, or the process of selectively investing a small number of individuals in order to teach obedience to what Jesus taught (Matthew…
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Interview on Discipleship with Eric Geiger
My friend Eric Geiger interviewed me on his blog on the topic of discipleship recently. Below is an excerpt: Discipleship is meeting someone where they are, and taking them where Jesus wants them to go. This…
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Being a Disciple
The 2013 Verge Conference was themed around Discipleship, and has given me plenty to think about. As my family has grown and our church has continued to grow, my time is increasingly spoken for. It seems…
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2012 Verge Talk – Who is the Missionary?
At Verge this year, I referred to the video above from Verge 2012 as the reason why we are pursuing missional communities. It’s a simple argument for the need for new forms to engage our cities…