Category: Mission
Help Gaining Clarity in a 20 Year Old Church with Rick Raiford
by unSeminary: Thanks for joining us for this episode of the unSeminary podcast. This week we’re talking with Rick Raiford, the executive pastor at Daystar Church in North Carolina. Daystar started as a small country church in Greensboro, North Carolina and over the past twenty years has grown to become […]
Learn How to Transform and Multiply Disciples Through Micro Groups with the Global Discipleship Initiative (GDI)
by Bobby Harrington: Meet Greg Ogden, author/speaker/teacher and Chairman of the Board of the Global Discipleship Initiative (GDI). We want you to meet Greg because our goal is to help you find the best guides out there, so you can become a more effective disciple maker. During our interview with […]
Fresh Expressions of the Church
by Healthy Growing Churches: On July 11th, 2017 the Barna Group published an article on their website that began with this paragraph: “It may come as no surprise that the influence of Christianity in the United States is waning. Rates of church attendance, religious affiliation, belief in God, prayer and […]
Foundations
On Demand Virtual Church Planting Training This on demand church planting training will introduce leaders to foundational strategies, practices, and principles of church planting. Through 15 fast-paced learning sessions, Foundations equips future church planters with helpful knowledge, tools and resources they’ll use on their church planting journey. We’ll go beyond […]
My Top 5 Recent Reflections on American Disciple Making
by Bobby Harrington: Summer is almost upon us and many of us take this time of transition to reflect and to look forward. Discipleship.org exists to help you find success in making disciples. When you choose to be a disciple who makes disciples, we call you a hero, and our […]
SABOTAGE
Post navigation Share Tweet Print Email by Peyton Jones: In France, the efforts of the French Resistance were significant enough to make a significant impact on the outcome of the war. They dismantled tank treads, put sand in the grease of vehicles, and stole ball bearings. Sabotage. It’s the enemy’s […]
ACTS 1 & 2
Post navigation Share Tweet Print Email by Peyton Jones: Acts was not written to show us how to do church. It was written to show us how to do churches. Acts was written to show us how the church expands; how the West was won. From day one at Pentecost, […]
5 Key Questions You Should Ask If Your Church Isn’t Growing
Chances are you didn’t get into leadership to see your church stop accomplishing its mission. One of the primary missions of the local church is to reach new people with Christ’s love, which, naturally, implies growth. But almost every church (and almost every organization) faces seasons in which growth stops. […]
COMMANDO SCHOOL
Post navigation Share Tweet Print Email by Peyton Jones: There are a few essential bits of training that a core team must have before they are deployed. Over the months that you will be training your core team, you need to emphasize the following resources, scriptures, and key concepts. The […]
Accountability You Can Sink Your Teeth Into
by Jim Putman, The word accountability has been subtly stolen from us by our enemy. He’s happy to distort accountability by either of two errors. Many call their small groups “accountability groups”, but all they do is share their struggles. They don’t do anything to help one another change, usually […]