TIPS FOR LEADERS WANTING TO DISCIPLE CHILDREN
It is everyone's responsibility to disciple children, not just the parents and the children's church. Here are some tips for church leaders.
THE PODCAST
MAKING DISCIPLES THE PODCAST IS HERE. A weekly 25min podcast to help in your spiritual formation.
Making Disciples Interview with Andy Frost
How to raise faith in the family.
Andy Frost heads up Share Jesus International. Working with Care for the family and Katherine Hill, Andy has been apart of creating Raising Faith. In this conversation, we talk about kids and how to disciple your family. We talk about the five helpful hits to disciple your children. 1. Praying with your kids 2. Reading the Bible with them and them seeing you read 3. Being intentional in asking questions about faith 4. Committing to a church family and playing your part 5. Looking to point faith outwards towards others. wearemakingdisciples.com
Lent is for the training of disciples
Lent is more important to your discipleship than you think. Its origins are about 1800 years ago in the Egyptian desert where they would baptise new disciples at Easter. Each disciple would go through 40 days of serious prayer and preparation as they approached their public declaration of faith and their renunciation of any other way other than the way of Jesus.
Lent in a Bag
Pilgrims journeying together…. Throughout the forty days of Lent, we remember the time Jesus spent in the wilderness. Each week, we will be taking time to reflect upon what might sustain us when we find ourselves in a “ wilderness.” Perhaps not literally, but in terms of facing empty, bleak or difficult times in our own lives. Perhaps something that happens at work, school or at home and we know that somehow we will have to get through it. We will have to “ walk through the wilderness”. “ Lent in a Bag” helps us to consider what we need to journey through that wilderness as pilgrims together.
HOW TO USE MAKING DISCIPLES IN LENT
Lent can be an amazing opportunity to take stock and invest in to our discipleship and spiritual formation with honesty and reality.
3 creative ways to disciple kids this Christmas.
Christmas is a great season for taking up the opportunity to disciple the kids in your life. Here are 3 creative ways to disciple your kids this Christmas.
Big and small disciples together
Thoughts on Children’s Discipleship
So how do we disciple children? Is the classroom the best way to help them fall in love with Jesus? Can we be doing more to share Jesus in the day to day as fellow disciples and as parents?
Interview with Mike Gore
WHAT IS TRUE DISCIPLESHIP AND WHY IS PERSECUTION IMPORTANT FOR US.
CHRIST-CENTRED DISCIPLESHIP
MAKING DISCIPLES INTERVIEW WITH ALAN HIRSCH
APPRENTICESHIP AND DISCIPLESHIP
Pete Baker, the Pais England National Director, talks with Cris about how to put into practice ancient discipleship practices with young people.
DISCIPLESHIP IS FOR ALL AND NOT THE FEW
For many with disabilities, seeing where they fit into the big story of the Bible is hard, especially when they can barely see where they fit into the church.
There is a group of people for whom discipleship is difficult to access, or there is nothing for them to access in the first place.
Is our school system destroying our discipleship?
Is our present church system is killing discipleship?
Ken Robinson would strongly state, and I would agree, that at present the school system is fundamentally about training university professors. Essentially everybody is being equipped to be an academic until they choose to opt out. The same could be said by the way we do discipleship. Sermons are often academic monologues. We are taught one way so we therefore teach this way. We tend to use the sermon to train people to be theologians and not disciples.
Creating a culture of growth and change
To change direction or an activity of the church we may need to change the very culture of the whole body.
Creating a church culture of growth and change is a challenging one. We can struggle to change the direction of the church community, we can find resistance where we don’t expect. To change direction or an activity of the church we may need to change the very culture of the whole body.
THE GOOD OLD DAYS
Going back to the old ways of making disciples - apprenticeship is discipleship, discipleship is about apprenticeship.
Our higher education model is having a detrimental effect upon how we do discipleship. So much of how the church does discipleship is modelled on a failing school system. I don’t say that to offend any teachers, but I am trying to shake up the church.
Additional Needs & Discipleship
Why and how to disciple children with additional needs?
Should discipling children with additional needs be a priority for the church?
Three Simple Rules
3 Simple Rules For Building A Healthy Dating Church Culture
I meet lots of people who say dating in their Christian community can be a bit of a nightmare...
Singleness Part 1
What The Bible Actually Says About Singleness
In this two-part article, we will explore two important biblical teachings surrounding singleness.
Singleness Part 2
What The Bible Actually Says About Singleness
In the second of this two-part article, we will continue to explore the biblical teachings surrounding singleness.
Catalysis
How did the early church make disciples? What can a church implement to activate discipleship in its churches.
Making Disciples with Dementia
The Challenge of a Dementia Friendly Church
In this second blog, on making disciples of older people. I want to focus on the subject of dementia and discipleship.
Ministry and Mission with Older People
In recent times the issues and challenges of ageing, seem to resonate in every news headline.
Discipleship in later life
What does it mean to be a disciple of Jesus when we spend our newly retired energy in looking after our own very elderly parents and at the same time serve our children in parenting grandchildren, or as we live an isolated existence in a care home?
Milennials
Creating a church culture that disciples millennials (without trying to disciple millennials)
This January I turned 28 (hurray). In Church of England Clergy terms this makes me a foetus and the youngest Rev in my area by 10 years.