Too many churches treat membership casually, yet they wonder why their people won't move to higher levels of commitment. Members should feel that their participation truly matters.
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Get Back to the Basics: Bible study, prayer, fellowship groups, and worship—these are the disciplines to mold people into active and committed followers of Christ.
Take the Long View: Discipling members into committed ...
Some people think a disciple is a Christian put up a notch or two. Other people have the idea that a disciple is somebody who has come through a course where you get up at some unearthly hour in the morning and go talk with somebody over interminable cups of coffee. We've got the idea that disciple is a term you don't worry about if you just want to be a Christian. But if you get serious, then you ...
Doing Church as a Team An interview with New Hope Christian Fellowship pastor Wayne Cordeiro. an interview with Wayne Cordeiro
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In 1994, Wayne Cordeiro founded New Hope Christian Fellowship with the un-extraordinary intention of people putting their natural gifts and passions to work for the kingdom of God. But the results have been extraordinary. Using the concept of "fractals," Cordeiro has devised a radical yet simple model of discipleship—he calls it "doing church as a team." Leadership journal editors Marshall Shelley ...
Jo Lewis and Gordon Palmer lament the findings of a Gallup poll that concluded "many professing believers remain woefully ignorant about the basic facts of Christianity." They set out categories—biblical and otherwise—in which Christians should have a basic knowledge. For each, rate how you believe the congregation of your church would score on a scale of 1 (our members are knowledgeable ...
To seize upon one of our Lord's favorite metaphors, the "fish" business these days is not as simple as it once seemed. The human fish now come out of outrageously polluted cultural waters, and they bring all the effects of their pollutedness with them. So how do you develop leaders—productive disciples of Jesus—from such a population?
The word re-parenting comes to mind. It suggests an effort ...
I'll never forget the day I stopped at a new convert's home to encourage him. A night-shift worker, he was fighting a hard battle with alcoholism. "He's down at the bar," his wife told me after I knocked at the door. "Been there since 6:30 this morning." Her son was on the way to bring him home. When he showed up, he was crocked, but friendly. He admitted everything, too. The whole family ...
Harvest Community Christian Church began as a small group of 5 families (9 adults and 6 children) in 1999. Later in the start-up process, 6 more families made the commitment to come and form a core community of approximately 35 people.
The church was launched and structured around relationships, rather than a program-based or event-based focus. In many ways, Harvest functioned around a cell-church ...
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