Your speech matters. In previous posts we have seen that. And we've considered what bad speech looks like and what good speech looks like…

Who am I seeking to deliberately influence for Christ? When will I spend time with them? How will I make it clear to them that I am for them? How can I get to understand them and their life better…

Opening Questions: Have you ever been in a situation where you thought someone was in the wrong only to find out later that you had misread the situation? Does that mean we should never evaluate what other people do and have an opinion about it…

If you are going to make disciples cross-culturally one of the most important qualities is one that really can’t be taught. You actually have to want to make disciples cross-culturally if you are going to make disciples cross-culturally…

Sometimes we doubt our conversion because we find such sins in our hearts. We look at the way we love God or pray or read our Bibles and we think there can't ever have been a Christian who was so bad at all of this…

Christianity is not just a doing religion. It is a religion based on certain truths, certain great realities, and if you don’t understand or believe those, you will never understand how…

Different images may come into your minds when I say you as a discipler need to teach. One person may think of someone at school, another a coach. There are at least two different kinds of teaching that I am convinced you need to pursue becoming better at if you are going to disciple others…

We have been working our way through a process of discipleship. In other words, how do we actually disciple someone else? 1.) We must follow Jesus. 2.) We must pursue people…

One of the primary goals of discipleship is to help someone else mature spiritually. But what does spiritual maturity actually look like? There’s a sense in which that question is easier to answer and difficult…

In order to disciple someone well, you need to understand where they are at spiritually. In the previous few posts, we have been considering different spiritual conditions or stages…

A third possible spiritual condition is that of a spiritual child. You remember how John says, I am writing to you children. The person you are discipling might be spiritually dead, a spiritual baby, or they might be a spiritual child…

A second place a person might be spiritually is a baby. The person you are discipling might be spiritually dead or second, the person you are discipling might be a spiritual baby…

Not everyone is at the same exact place spiritually.We have been talking about how to disciple someone else. In the last post we stressed the importance of thinking about where the person you are wanting to…

If you picture the Christian life, it is not that you become a Christian and then kachow, you know everything and you are obedient in every area, you come out of the new birth, spiritually an adult…

We are supposed to make disciples. If we fail at this point, we fail at everything else as well. Jesus made our mission pretty clear when he said, “Go and make disciples”…

A third step towards developing impactful biblical friendships: 1. Follow Jesus. 2. Pursue People. 3. Ask Questions…

Discipleship should be more than a nice idea to talk about. It should be a way of life. But how? Where do we begin? We are walking our way through a basic process to follow in order to develop influential…

It's one thing to know that you are supposed to do something. It's another to know how. Understanding that we are supposed to go out and make disciples is great, but if we as believers are actually going to make disciples…

We often miss discipleship opportunities because we make discipling more complicated than it really is. If discipleship is helping others grow in Christ and we help others grow in Christ as we speak the truth in love…

Selfishness can cause you to become angry. It also can keep you from becoming angry. Sometimes we become angry because we are overly concerned with ourselves, but there are other times…