Recently I was talking to our leader Mark who mentioned something to me about someone in our neighborhood thinking that for an organic church, we at Oikos are too organized and not spontaneous …
Discipleship = Slow burn revival
Recently I saw another post by someone on Facebook about something a lot of charismatics and Pentecostals pray for. I used to be like this, and I'm not judging those who pray for this. But I have …
You Can’t Disciple Someone You Don’t Know
My last post, Real Discipleship is Very Inconvenient to the Flesh has gotten a lot of traffic, and a few comments on social media that it merits following up on it real quick. Like I said, from …
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Real Discipleship Is Very Inconvenient To The Flesh
I just finished recording a podcast with Stephen Crosby a couple of mornings ago. Since it's summer break here and most of our students have gone home, I'm freed up to get some writing, editing …
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Embracing The Imperfect Journey Toward Maturity In Christ
Like I mentioned in last Thursday's blog post, while I was in the jungle of Pucallpa I taught on information, imitation and innovation. In today's post I'm going to focus on that last part, …
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Information, Imitation and Innovation in Discipleship
"For though you have countless guides in Christ, you do not have many fathers. For I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel. I urge you, then, be imitators of me. That is why I …
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The Reality of Discipleship: More than Just Sunday Sermons
I've been thinking a lot lately about writing a succinct blog post on what is discipleship since the majority of the time that I talk to a few other missionaries or pastors, I find myself …
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Thousands of Teachers, but Few Fathers
I'm fairly certain you can't properly make disciples from a pulpit or any other platform, such as books or a podcast. This is because, as I mentioned in a previous post/quote, "Discipleship is a …
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Discipleship is not a Program
I have spent the last year or more living in a missional community in Peru, where discipleship is a core value of ours--if not THE focus of our mission. If you've spent any time on my blog in the …
Do Pastors Think They’re Doing More Discipling Than They Really Are?
I just came across this post in my Google alerts on discipleship and thought it was worth a look. Study: Pastors See Discipleship Progress Despite Lack of Regular ... (author unknown) "While …
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Can You Effectively Make Disciples Using ONLY The Internet?
For those of you who don't get why, as a missionary, I "spend so much time on the Internet" each day here's why; the last time I preached, there were probably upwards of 30 people in the room. I …
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