The Multiply Initiative is our simple yet aggressive plan to multiply disciples. While we can multiply programs, events, services, and churches, the heart of strategy plan is when disciples begin to multiply themselves. If a new Christian simply replicated your life, would you be pleased with his or her maturity? PD 14 – Multiply Yourself …
The Multiply Initiative is our simple yet aggressive plan to multiply disciples. Our church is an established church with almost two centuries of discipleship work. As we go forward during this time, we wanted to simplify our strategy as a church and clarify our expectations for our covenant members. The Great Commission Go therefore and …
A critical element in discipleship is training someone how to overcome temptation. While everyone is tempted, particular people are more prone to certain temptations than others.
In order to overcome temptation, let’s identify Satan’s strategy, Jesus’ success, and our steps needed to succeed.
In our fast-paced society and our continuously-loud distractions, our eyes, ears, bodies, minds, hearts, and souls need margin.
The disciplines of silence, solitude, and Sabbath are meant to provide renewal for the disciple.
Fasting is an important and yet overlooked spiritual discipline. While most disciplines encourage people to do something, fasting encourages people to do without something.
Fasting is the voluntary denial of physical food for spiritual purposes.
A personal prayer habit is vitally important in the life of a disciple maker. Not only does it remind us of our dependence upon God for sanctification, but we must also model healthy prayer disciplines in our discipleship of others.
We learn how to pray by praying.
While reading Scripture is vitally important, oftentimes, we forget what we have read as soon as we have closed our Bibles. The lost of art of meditating and memorizing Scripture is a key discipline in the life of the disciple.
We must discipline our minds to have the words of the Bible accessible even when a copy of the Bible is not available.
A key component in personal discipleship is the practice of spiritual disciplines. Spiritual disciplines are not meant to make you more liked by Jesus but more like Jesus. We discipline ourselves for the purpose of godliness (1 Tim. 4:7).
No discipline is more important than regular Bible study because it encourages every other spiritual discipline.
[Guest Post by Bryce Staggs – Rocky Creek Pastoral Resident]
The writers of the New Testament show an importance in discipleship using the word “disciple” over 260 times and the word “Christian” only 3 times. We echo that discipleship is important, but do we know why it’s important, what we should teach, or how to do it?
While the word, “discipleship,” is not found in the Old Testament, the concept is embedded from the very beginning. God’s people were to pass on a legacy of faith to the following generations.