What others have said: “Jim, I’ve not listened to a more insightful, helpful or engaging presentation in 20 years … especially your five, concluding action recommendations. I highly recommend viewing your full workshop to those who are serious about actually doing what Jesus commands each real Jesus Follower in the Great Commission (Matthew 28-18-20).” Gary […]
Category: discipleship
Here is the workshop I gave at Toronto MissionFest 2012 (40 minutes) http://www.devedinternational.net/fractal/mf/player.html I would love to hear your thoughts, or a review of the presentation. Please feel free to share this with others.
“Start ’em young and show ’em how“, I say. I am here with my two budding master pizzeros. This is the way we should learn so many things: experientially. Someday Jonathan and Andrew will be making pizzas for their kids and they will say, “Here is how you do it. Now let me see you […]
I have always been troubled by John the Baptist’s question to Jesus: “Are you the One who is coming, or do we look for someone else?” (Luke 7:20) Didn’t they have the baptism incident together, hearing God’s voice etc? Wasn’t he Jesus’ right-hand man? In addition, John sent his disciples to ask a difficult question. I […]
We don’t know much about Jesus growing up but a good part of what we do know is in Luke 2. There is a fascinating event that effectively illustrates a principle of collaborative connection, especially the need to renegotiate that connection as he grew. It was Jesus family’s custom to go to Passover each year […]
Why I believe in challenging the status quo of the church today: 1) Jesus used a method in disciple making that we have too easily discounted as not workable today. Or we say we subscribe to it, but put so much other stuff in front of it that we trivialize it. 2) The present system […]
Latin Rules for gathering are very similar to Farm Rules. Of course Gord Jones from his farm or Jim Klaas from his limited experience in Latin America cannot speak for ALL farms or ALL of Latin America. But this is what I think of as Latin rules we could use as it affects people getting […]
Lots of things in life are self-directed: how much you eat, how much you rest, how you exercise, the way you use your time, the way you relate to others, volunteer, choose your vocation etc. So why don’t we release learners to find out what they need and provide an environment where they can make […]
Mobile Discipleship is a creedal, non-exclusive and learner-driven (minimalist) structure. Creedal means we gather around: “Jesus Christ is Lord”. Participants may not yet embrace that belief but they need to know that this is why we call it church. Non-exclusive means people can concurrently belong to any faith community (or not). We want to work […]
Will this Rock in Rio by Ken Lottis. This is an excellent book that traces the ministry path of Ken Lottis and friends in Brazil as the forerunners of our own 15 years in Latin America. It gives a poignant look behind the scenes in how they figured out the disciple-making ministry at a time […]