Most cars come with four- or five-speed transmissions. Today’s Corvette sports a seven-speed unit. The car nearly flies at speeds in excess of 200 miles per hour. The purpose behind all multi-geared...
Had an interesting conversation, yesterday, about church planting and evangelism. A strong financial supporter of my Mission Hope ministry overseas challenged me to include evangelism in the things I...
“I need to delegate disciplemaking.” “Running the church takes so much time that I need to delegate that.” “You don’t know how busy I am. This ministry has grown huge and lots of people depend on me...
Growing up in the church, I heard legalism. When I went to college at the University of Michigan, I heard grace and learned about making disciples I became a follower of Christ through the efforts of...
Our first church planting venture was a near disaster. There was no sending church. The church we came from took an offering to help us, but that was all they could afford. They sent no people...
Sometimes, we are like that story of the king with no clothes. He thought he was dressed majestically but was–in reality, naked. You’ve come to this blog page, so I guess you must be interested...
I recently sat in a circle of disciplemakers when concerns arose over opening doors too quickly. One person expressed fear over tossing people into deep water where they might drown. I immediately...
