Top 5 Most Popular Articles of 2017
For quantity doesn’t always correspond to quality, especially on the Internet. However, sometimes, articles that have a broad readership indicate that a powerful idea or formative truth has been shared.
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3 Emerging Needs in Building a Strong Discipleship
Discipleship is not simply staffed by elite paid clergy by the few for the few. Instead, it is God’s call for all the saints (priesthood of believers) to biblically counsel and disciple all.
3 Church Practices that Need to Die
God is unimpressed by human speed. Go deep, not just wide. Grow members, not just numbers. Serve your successor, not just yourself.
Friends, I need your help.
This has changed my life and I hope with my whole heart that it will change yours.
One Simple Task the Church Has Neglected
Their whole mission was nearly useless if they didn’t spread it and multiply it.
Is it Ok for Christians to watch ‘Stranger Things’?
Today living in the 21st century, we live in a culture where it is no surprise that all entertainment platform is encouraged and empower their users to allow any filthy language, nudity, violence, and other mature content from movies and TV series.
Toxic Leader: The Bully Shepherd and Wounded Sheep
The word “toxic” comes from the German “toxikon” which means “arrow poison”. In a literal sense, the term in its original form thus means to kill (poison) in a targeted way (arrow).
False Assumptions of Discipleship
Discipleship is simply this; Disciples are called to know Christ, grow with Christ, and go for Christ.
The Ordinary Radicals: Radical Life of Ordinary Christians
This is absolutely a counter-cultural model. This radically changes everything of how we think and howe we function as a church.
Church’s Great Threat = Pornography
Huffington Post writes, “Porn sites has more regular traffics compared to Netflix, Amazon and Twitter combined all together each month.”
This is a shocking reality. These are not angry fundamentalist conservative Christians but secular culture coming up with these statistics.
How NOT to Make Disciples
The leaders of the first century church did NOT ask each other, “how many came to church last week?” That’s not how God measures success.
10 Things I Wished I Learned in Seminary
My time in seminary was perhaps one of my sweetest moments yet a hardest time of my life. But seminary didn’t teach me everything. It certainly didn’t fully prepare me for ministry.
The Transforming Power of Transparency
What if we brought this 1st century principle into the 21st century of living in honest transparent lifestyle as Jesus did?
Five Ways to Cultivate a Culture of Discipleship
Jesus envisioned that the victory would be won through witnessing and he depended on the faithfulness of his chosen disciples to this task. That was his only plan. His concern was not with programs to reach the multitudes, but men were to be His method of winning the world.
The Six Gospels Churches Believe
The Contemporary gospel is an American cultural artifact, namely, you can become a Christian and not follow Jesus, discipleship is optional.
Five Deadly Signs of an Unhealthy Church
“Just because a church is large doesn’t mean it’s healthy. It could be swollen.” – Charles. H. Spurgeon
4 Myths About Disciple-Making
If your ministry has a leadership problem it has a discipleship problem. You can’t make disciples and not develop leaders.
Why Churches Don’t Grow
We want to do church, but we don’t want to live Christ. We can only change when the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the pain of changing.
How Does a Man Know if He is Called to Pastoral Ministry?
I was recently looking back at some of my journals, and to be honest, there are/were times in my life’s journey I have struggled to know if God was calling me to pastoral ministry. Every follower of Jesus is called to be a minister. Not a single disciple of Jesus is exempt from the task of disciple making (Discipleship.) However, …
The Detrimental Sin of Gossip
Gossip is one sin that seems to fall in the spiritual “No-Man’s Land” like the awkward uncle around that Thanksgiving table that nobody wants to talk to or deal with; a passivity that many tolerate that widespread and eats us up like a cancer. It seems impossible to deal with it so instead we just kind of shove it under the carpet and pretend the big elephant is not in the room.
3 What’s NOT Church Membership
Gathering of the saints needs to be one of the top priority of Christ followers, in fact it is crucial and essential to the faith! For the good of their own soul, for the mission of Christ, and for the health of local congregation.
Why Church Community Matters
Discipleship doesn’t happen apart from the context of local church. There is no such thing as a solo-discipleship as it’s a foreign idea. We can’t become the Christian we are meant to be by being alone with God.
5 Dangers of Church Skipping
“I love Jesus but I don’t like the church. I will never leave Jesus but I’m done with the church” people who make such a statement are walking away from Jesus.
Why are Young People Drifting from the Church?
Stats shows that 80% of young people who dropped out of church said they did not plan to do so during high school.