church growth

Will Your Church’s Disciple Making Plan Pan Out?

Will Your Church’s Disciple Making Plan Pan Out?

In disciplemaking, the market is flooded by options that "mine the miner." They help church leaders carry the disciplemaking desire without ever satisfying it. Panning for gold happens in the river, and disciplemaking happens through life-to-life relationships. It can't be shipped in boxes or scaled in classes.

The pan can't disciple anyone.

Get in the water.

Marks of a Disciple Making Culture: A Core Team

Marks of a Disciple Making Culture: A Core Team

Most pastors and churches don’t understand what it takes to build a core team and what characteristics such a team possesses. So what does a core team look like in the wild? Here are FOUR commitments a core team must have to make a disciple making impact.

Marks of a Disciple Making Culture - Relationally Driven

Marks of a Disciple Making Culture - Relationally Driven

Though every church has relationships, very few are relationally driven. Let me explain. Scripture tells us to love one another but most Christians “system one another” by pointing each other to books, Bible studies, and programs specifically designed to meet each need.