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Why We Don’t Disciple #2: Our Churches Are Seeker-Sensitive, But...
Let me suggest another reason our discipleship of others is so shallow, and may even be non-existent. 2. Our churches are seeker-sensitive, but believer-insensitive. No church has done more to research...
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Why We Don’t Disciple #3: Our Churches Are Less Converted
Here’s a third reason our discipleship of others is so shallow, and may even be non-existent. 3. Our churches are less converted. Our churches have fewer truly regenerate Christians in them, and so...
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Why We Don’t Disciple #4: Our Churches Are Program Dependent
Welcome to “Why We Don’t Disciple #4″. Or, as you may prefer to call it, “Biting The Hand That Feeds.” 4. Our churches are program dependent. Here’s a modern day parable for your delectation, told to...
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Why We Don’t Disciple #5: Our Churches Are Ashamed of the Gospel
Murmuring underneath everything we’ve seen so far is a fifth and final reason why our discipleship of others is failing so badly. 5. Our churches are ashamed of the gospel. Not so long ago, I was...
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How Can We Disciple Well?
Over the past five weeks, we’ve been thinking about why Western evangelical churches have not been discipling well. So now what? What practical steps can we take to improve? 1. When we’re trying to...
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Mark In Miniature
When you read Mark’s Gospel, it’s striking how often Jesus speaks of “the kingdom of God”. Carl Laferton and I have developed a short presentation of the Gospel which majors on this theme. It does it...
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Should We Use “The Sinner’s Prayer”?
It’s been the source of controversy at the Southern Baptist Convention, with David Platt calling it “superstitious”. And yet a recent Christianity Today editorial called it “a work of genius, as...
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When Shouldn’t We Use “The Sinner’s Prayer”?
Last week, I gave a bit of background on “The Sinner’s Prayer”, exploring what it is, and what it isn’t. Just to be clear, then, I’m not about to argue that sinners shouldn’t cry out for God’s mercy....
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How Can We Share The Gospel Without A “Sinner’s Prayer”?
The last couple of weeks we’ve been thinking about “The Sinner’s Prayer”. I started with a definition of what I mean by the term, and then suggested that it led to at least three serious spiritual...
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Four Reasons You’ll Love Life Explored
On September 1st, God-willing, we’ll be publishing the final piece in the “Explored” trilogy, 15 years after we first published Christianity Explored. D. A. Carson writes: “At a time in the Western...
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