Please watch this 7 minute presentation on issues to keep in mind when designing or choosing your discipleship programme. A compilation of ideas from this summer’s musing. Your comments are welcome. Jim
Category: discipleship
In John 1:1 Jesus could be described as the Verb as well as the Word. When He comes in, He changes people who change the world. Transformation involves our lives and not just increasing information. What if we seek to experience God and not just talk about Him . This 40 day discipleship adventure involves […]
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 […]
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 […]
Summer Discipleship Project Summertime things wind down and it is easy to coast in our relationships with God and others. Consider if God would have you participate in a challenge of meeting with one other believer for mutually discipleship this summer. (Meet as often […]
I just found a great post on Fractal Discipleship http://www.reachingtheonlinegeneration.com/2009/04/17/fractal-discipleship/ It is about quickly getting the DNA right in how a group is discipled. Neil Cole says DNA stands for : Divine truth Nurturing relationships Apostolic mission It is not about just listening to sermons. (That builds quite a passive DNA that reproduces sitting and […]
The fractal we chose in discipleship has great implications. Implication #1 The broccoli versus pumpkin illustration reveals that parenting will be much more effective when sets of parents are reproduced instead of just adding children in an orphanage type scenario. (See “Let me change your understanding…” https://mobilediscipleship.org/?p=249 ) Implication #2 Our fractal can […]