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...

How much differently do you think you would see your life, and live your life, if you could see everything as God does?

You may be asking, “What does a Mature Disciple look like? When does one 'graduate' to being a Mature Disciple?” Great questions! To...

We tell believers what they should be and do to experience the Christian life, but then do not help them develop the practical skills...

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...

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!...

Few churches or Christians have a clear and measurable definition of “spiritual success” (maturity). George Barna identified an important...

The vast majority of Christian adults say they came to faith when they were children or youth. Doesn’t this argue for concentrating our...

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...

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...

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...

Among all the many good things we do as Christians, whether individually or as congregations, where does disciplemaking fit as a...

Here are 17 specific ways in which our typical thinking about discipleship and disciplemaking is flawed -- fuzzy, confused, incomplete,...

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...

I hope the foregoing statistics, shared earlier on this blog, are sobering to you. Even troubling. No born-again Christian should look at...

In 2011, George Barna published the results of a six-year research project involving sixteen scientifically conducted national telephone...

In our current blog series, we have been examining research that I’ve come across since the turn of the millennium regarding this...

In our current blog series, we have been examining five points of research I’ve come across since the turn of the millennium regarding...

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...

When asked how well we in the Church are doing with disciplemaking, most readers probably would respond with a generic, “Not very well.”...