I will be heading down to Puerto Rico (May 1 to 5, 2013) to give a course on discipleship and want to invite others to join us in prayer and to practice along side a spiritual exercise called 40 Days of a Learning Journey that they will be doing as a result of their course. […]
Author: Jim Klaas
I am no expert on post-modernism but I recently gathered some of the work I did previously on presenting discipleship more as story rather than a programme. This helped me get to the 5 verbs of learning although I still like the ideas here: The Story of the 4 Rooms (Presentation 5 minutes) The 4 […]
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This 4 minute YouTube video presents some interesting analysis why the NRA in the States is so powerful in resisting gun control http://youtu.be/Pdt6Jj64TVU Leaving aside this specific issue, (although I don’t think we should be selling automatic weapons), I think the idea of the 3 factors for success is worth discussing: Individual benefits, selective incentives […]
The goal of the Paths of Discipleship Tool is to turn discipleship from a noun to a verb, offering increasingly difficult challenge levels for the practice of 5 learning verbs that emulate the discipleship process that Jesus used. A quick overview is available there by clicking the lightning bolt icon on the top right of […]
If disciples are anything we chose them to be, then making them should be easy. But if we did that, we would miss the point. We need to ask what did Jesus do to make disciples? This 20 minute presentation will look at Jesus’ pattern for discipleship, see how it is fleshed out in the […]
This presentation on Fractals (2008) is an excellent explanation if you want to understand this realm of mathematics. It made me think of reasons why the fractal analysis of the disciple-making process is necessary! (Versus considering this a mildly confusing curiosity.) 1) The fractal concepts makes visible the multiplying of labourers in the way Jesus […]
Do you recognize this tuber? The Jerusalem artichoke is a relative of the sunflower. Multiplication is built into this plant, as every node along the thickened stem can produce another tuber, up to 200 per plant! We harvested over 7 lbs. of tubers from about 10 plants that grew from pieces left in the ground. […]
“Scale is the enemy of discipleship just as efficiency is the enemy of relationship.” Un*discipled. Tyler Johnston makes an excellent point about the problem of scale since the maintenance of the programme will require actions that do not build relationships. “In placating the masses, we have lost our ability to effectively disciple the individuals comprising […]
Here is my ‘top 5’ wish list of what I would like to try in a home church. 1. Build a community around spiritual formation by making disciples (learners) rather than adopting a traditional church format and trying to make disciple-making fit into it. Decide what best accomplishes disciple-making, draw a line around that and […]