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Sharpening Our View of God’s Highest Aim for Us
Although I didn’t realize it at the time, in a very real sense, God gave me the answer to this question of His highest aim nearly 40...

chris784
Jul 19, 20194 min read
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What Are the Limits of Your World?
How much differently do you think you would see your life, and live your life, if you could see everything as God does?

chris784
Jun 20, 20193 min read
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Disciplemaking vs. Discipleship: What Is God's Goal?
You may be asking, “What does a Mature Disciple look like? When does one 'graduate' to being a Mature Disciple?” Great questions! To...

chris784
May 15, 20192 min read
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How Safe Would You Feel Riding in Your Teenager’s Car If ...
We tell believers what they should be and do to experience the Christian life, but then do not help them develop the practical skills...

chris784
Nov 19, 20184 min read
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The God-Shaped Hole in the Heart of Man
Since Creation, man has sought solutions that only God can solve. A couple weeks ago, I talked about how I kept asking, “Where are these...

chris784
Oct 15, 20183 min read
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Do We Assume People Are Farther Along Than They Actually Are?
I can’t begin to tell you how many times I have made this error, even after I first recognized this flaw in my disciplemaking years ago!...

chris784
Sep 11, 20173 min read
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Do You Have a Clear, Measurable Definition of 'Spiritual Success'?
Few churches or Christians have a clear and measurable definition of “spiritual success” (maturity). George Barna identified an important...

chris784
Aug 7, 20172 min read
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Where's the Fruit of Youth Ministry?
The vast majority of Christian adults say they came to faith when they were children or youth. Doesn’t this argue for concentrating our...

chris784
Jul 10, 20172 min read
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How Do We Bring More to Christ? Lift Up Jesus and He Will Draw Them In!
A number of years ago, I was reflecting on John 12:32. In it Jesus says, "And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all men to...

chris784
May 8, 20173 min read
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God's Plan vs. Our Practice
Let’s review the basics of God’s plan or approach for building His Kingdom and then look at our practice, i.e., what most believers...

chris784
Apr 26, 20173 min read
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How Loving Jesus Fills the Whole Church
So much of what we do in Christendom is an attempt to get believers to be better in one way or another. For example, as worshipers (hire...

chris784
Apr 10, 20173 min read
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Men, Don't Miss God's High Priority on Disciplemaking
Among all the many good things we do as Christians, whether individually or as congregations, where does disciplemaking fit as a...

chris784
Mar 8, 20173 min read
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Do Any of These 17 Discipleship Flaws Sound Familiar?
Here are 17 specific ways in which our typical thinking about discipleship and disciplemaking is flawed -- fuzzy, confused, incomplete,...

chris784
Feb 6, 20172 min read
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Are My Ways Better Than God's?
Let me share the root issue beneath what we've been saying about America’s “man problem” on this blog over the past few months. Here are...

chris784
Jan 16, 20172 min read
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If You’re Not Personally Making Disciples, That May Explain a Lot . . .
I hope the foregoing statistics, shared earlier on this blog, are sobering to you. Even troubling. No born-again Christian should look at...

chris784
Dec 5, 20163 min read
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Where Are You along the "10 Stops" on the Journey toward Spiritual Maturity?
In 2011, George Barna published the results of a six-year research project involving sixteen scientifically conducted national telephone...

chris784
Nov 7, 20164 min read
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How Many Men (in Chattanooga) Are Actively Engaged in Making Disciples?
In our current blog series, we have been examining research that I’ve come across since the turn of the millennium regarding this...

chris784
Oct 3, 20162 min read
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C'mon, What Do You Mean the Church Is Not Making Disciples!? (Part III)
In our current blog series, we have been examining five points of research I’ve come across since the turn of the millennium regarding...

chris784
Sep 12, 20161 min read
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What Do You Mean the Church Is Not Making Disciples!? (Part II)
In our last blog, we discussed the first of five points of research I’ve come across since the turn of the millennium regarding the claim...

chris784
Aug 22, 20162 min read
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"Not very well." Why is this the answer to "How is the Church doing at making disciples?"
When asked how well we in the Church are doing with disciplemaking, most readers probably would respond with a generic, “Not very well.”...

chris784
Aug 1, 20163 min read
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