What Now 2 Do

And if you give even a cup of cold water to one of the least of my followers, you will surely be rewarded. Matthew 10:42 NLT Our purpose is to announce the Good News, and to disciple believers until they are fully surrendered. God’s role is salvation and sanctification.

Beware The Guzzintas; Making Disciples Not Believers

Then, calling the crowd to join his disciples, he said, “If any of you wants to be my follower, you must give up your own way, take up your cross, and follow me. If you try to hang on to your life, you will lose it. But if you give up your life for my […]

Feed My Sheep

Too many people want to harvest. Not enough people want to water.

You Just Don’t Know

Each heart knows its own bitterness, and no one else can fully share its joy. Proverbs 14:10 NLT The gamut of a person’s feelings, from bitterness to joy, cannot be fully shared with another human. No matter how close we are, no one can really know the internal experiences of another. Only God fully knows […]

On Fellowship With God /2

What we have seen and heard we announce to you also, so that you will join with us in the fellowship that we have with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ. 1 John 1:3 GNT Yesterday’s post (On Fellowship With God /1) provided some context on fellowship. Here are some fellowship life-hacks for […]

Are You Willing?

Then Jesus said to His disciples, “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me. For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it. Matthew 16:24-25 NKJV In Jesus’ day, the cross represented […]

The Great Commission: Evangelism. Conversion. Discipleship.

The Word: Jesus came and told his disciples, “I have been given all authority in heaven and on earth. Therefore, go and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Teach these new disciples to obey all the commands I have given […]

Martin Luther on Discipleship

“If I profess with loudest voice and clearest exposition every portion of the truth of God except that little point which the world and the Devil are at that moment attacking, I am not confessing Christ, however boldly I may be professing Christ. Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved, […]