Discipleship and Church Planting: Part 6-Return Them to the Field Immediately
We now come to the final post in this series on discipleship and church planting. I want to encourage you church planters to write and publish more in this area. Excellent resources are greatly needed for teaching people obedience in the community of a new church with new believers. I case you missed the first [...]
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Discipleship and Church Planting: Part 5-Teach Healthy Disciplines as Soon as Possible
I once watched a television program about a particular bird that was raised in captivity and never knew its mother. The scientists who nurtured the animal did all they could to imitate the mother bird, even using bird puppets to feed it. When the time came to reintroduce the creature to the wild, many artificial [...]
Discipleship and Church Planting: Part 4-Teach Obedience
The previous posts in this six-part series can be found here: Part 1-Set the Example Part 2-Keep it Simple Part 3-Begin at the Individual Level Teaching obedience does not require complex paradigms, diagrams, and charts. It does not require advanced degrees. It does require us to know our people, to know ourselves, to know how [...]
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Discipleship and Church Planting: Part 3-Begin at the Individual Level
In case you missed the previous two posts in this series, here they are: Discipleship and Church Planting: Part 1-Set the Example Discipleship and Church Planting Part 2-Keep it Simple There is a real temptation for church planters to concentrate their efforts on discipleship at the corporate level first, assuming growth in Christ will trickle down [...]
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Discipleship and Church Planting: Part 2-Keep it Simple
In the first post in this series, I discussed the importance of missionaries setting the example before new believers. Now we come to the importance of keeping it simple. Church planters must work diligently to keep the discipling process simple, such is the biblical way. Keeping it simple means teaching biblical depth. The same apostle who practiced [...]
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Discipleship and Church Planting: Part 1-Set the Example
The Matthean account of the Great Commission commands us to make disciples, baptize, and teach them to observe all that Jesus commanded. While you have read on this blog that church planting, as modeled in the Scriptures, is evangelism that results in new churches, I want to begin this six-part series addressing this other aspect of the [...]
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