Personal discipleship is about moving closer to what Jesus wants for us in every area of our lives.
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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.
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.
Lent can be an amazing opportunity to take stock and invest in to our discipleship and spiritual formation with honesty and reality.
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.
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?
WHAT IS TRUE DISCIPLESHIP AND WHY IS PERSECUTION IMPORTANT FOR US.
MAKING DISCIPLES INTERVIEW WITH ALAN HIRSCH
Pete Baker, the Pais England National Director, talks with Cris about how to put into practice ancient discipleship practices with young people.
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 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.
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.
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.
Why and how to disciple children with additional needs?
Should discipling children with additional needs be a priority for the church?
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...
What The Bible Actually Says About Singleness
In this two-part article, we will explore two important biblical teachings surrounding singleness.
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.
How did the early church make disciples? What can a church implement to activate discipleship in its churches.
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.
In recent times the issues and challenges of ageing, seem to resonate in every news headline.
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?
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.
