There has been much discussion and many articles or books written to address the decline of the church in recent years. Some, including me, have stated that the decline feeds the decline because of a lack of genuine discipleship. In other terms, an investment in discipleship is an investment in evangelism futures. My books
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I am making an ongoing collection of leadership misconceptions and I have gathered twenty two to get the list started. Perhaps the list will help readers in some way and be discussion starters. I did not come up with all of these and in fact gathered them from various [...]
The “gremlin series” of articles I have written has been hugely successful with over 40,000 readers all total. Human nature tends to lead us to see the gremlins in the lives of other people but if that is all you see then you are missing the point. A gremlin in this sense is a self-defeating [...]
For the first time in many years I am currently not serving as a pastor of a local church and find myself in a reflective mood. Having enjoyed over 20 years of service as a pastor, I have observed not only wolves in sheep’s clothing preying on the vulnerable people in the church, but [...]
It has become a tradition to post an article sharing the top 10 Simple Discipleship articles of the year. Writing is an interesting endeavor. Articles the writer expects will receive broad readership often get little attention and the opposite is also true. I did not count on the Gremlin articles to get such high [...]
The Mayans were wrong and the world did not end on December 21, 2012 as they predicted. My grandson told me, “If the Mayans were so good at predicting the future, maybe they would still be around.” Well stated! It looks like we are faced with a New Year. Has this past year been so [...]
After writing Simple Discipleship: How to Make Disciples in the 21st Century and then The Disciple-Maker’s Toolkit, I have continued to develop discipleship oriented ministries such as JUMP Sports and RENEW Wellness. However, in the last year I began working on a new task called The Laws of Discipleship. As a member of the [...]
What is “discipleship?”I thought it might be instructive to simply ask the many readers of the Simple Discipleship blog to define the term. Please submit comments that summarize your understanding of the term “discipleship.” Please establish your principles using the Bible by citing the reference or the complete verse. If your definition is too [...]
As a young man I attended technical school for six months to earn certification as an Emergency Medical Technician. During the training there was much classroom time but an equal amount of practical application training. I worked with some patients with experienced paramedics overseeing our every move. It was only after certification that I [...]
With 102 passengers and 30 crew members, a deeply committed group of Christians set off to find a brave new world where they could live according to their faith and principles with freedom and justice as hallmarks of their new existence. They turned their backs on tyranny and oppressive government and a continuing encroachment [...]
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