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Demystifying Discipleship
Finding a More Biblical Model for the Multiplication of Disciples and Churches
Tags: biblical model, church, discipleship, equipping, multiplication
Jesus’ final commandment to His followers was to “Go and make disciples of all nations. . .teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you.” (Matt. 28:19-20) His mandate is just as urgent now...
Framing a New Model of Training Cross-Cultural Church Planters
Tags: church, cross-cultural, leadership, planters, training
Introduction
Confusion of massive proportions is taking place across the missionary enterprise. Great cultural change in the world has thwarted both young and old so that many are unable to...
Further Reflections
Next Steps in Your Church
Tags: church, engaged, frontiers, frontlines, globally minded
Without the “fires burning” on the home front, things go cold on the frontlines. The first time I wrote about this in MF was in the 1990s. Over the years, I’ve written about the need for a...
A Time For Everything
Tags: central asia, church, indigenous, leadership
I went to see Talgat mainly because that is what friends do in Central Asia—spend time together. He is not a ministry project, but a friend whose company I enjoy. Nevertheless, I also wanted to see...
Simple Churches
Dramatic Transformations, Rapid Replication
Tags: church, discovery bible study, reproduce, transformation
Our goal is not only the multiplication of churches or numbers of believers; our goal is to see transformation. —Habib, Senior disciple-making trainer.
Maysa was a very ordinary person living...
Obituary for the American Church
Tags: american, church, culture, western
From time to time I will have the people I’m discipling write out their own pastoral obituary. I ask them to write out how our enemy would take them out, rendering them unable to serve their family...
Do We Need to Change the Way We Do Church to Reach the Unreached?
Tags: church, mission, unreached
Some readers may ask, “Why all this talk about how to do church? I thought this was a missions magazine?" As we bring the gospel to the unreached peoples, an essential question is what type of...
Church Models
And How They Mix (or Not) with Church-Planting Movements
Tags: cell church, church, church planting, house church
While no one structure is prescribed for Church-Planting Movements (CPMs) or rapid multiplication, adaptation and change is often required to allow CPM-type groups to exist within these...
Getting Kingdom Right
To Get Church Right
Tags: church, church planting, kingdom
What comes to your mind when you hear about a movement of God in which almost 200 churches were started within three years in a remote people group?
What comes to your mind when you hear about a...