God’s call on the life of every believer is to live among those who don’t know Christ.
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Category: Live among those who don’t know Christ
Disciplemaking 101: Keep Your Eyes Open
Simple disciplemaking demands that we have our eyes open for opportunities to help people begin following Jesus.
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Engaging Others with Irresistible Faith
We are called to model an irresistible faith, to live in the world, but not to be of it. Every relationship is an opportunity to exercise the love and compassion of Christ.
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Kingdom Expanding Community
Just as God operates in relationship, it’s His design for us to do the same. When making disciples, community should be the context of our heart and mission.
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The Heart of the Matter
The primary “work” God requires is believing in the One He has sent (John 6:29) and loving one another.
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Erase the “Just”
Whether or not your ministry offers a source of income or professional title, no believer is “just” a disciplemaker. Every follower of Christ is part of Jesus’ plan to reach the world.
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If You Want to Cookie Cut Disciples, Stick to Cookies!
I learned a hard lesson early on in my disciple making efforts. I had the heart to invest in people, but I was more interested in the system I was using. I thought “The more the better” and worked to fit people into a system that would disciple more…
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Being Among Those Who Don’t Know Christ Isn’t Enough
My wife Pam and I have some neighbors, “Mike and Sarah” who love Jesus and seem to like being around us. But are we destined to sit around our kitchen table singing What a Beautiful Name with them until Jesus returns (I love that song, by the way)? While being in community with other believers is vital (which we’ll speak to in a later post), God has something more for us than just that.
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This Is More Foundational than Disciplemaking
Several years ago, a gathering of Navigator leaders prayed and sought God in developing a short list of top priority skills or behaviors to build into the lives of people we call disciplemakers.
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What the World Really Needs
We read the headlines and experience the conflict. Around the world and even among our own families and friends there is a weight of desperation—people are lonely and without hope.
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