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Equipping the People of God for the Mission of God
How Are We Doing?
Tags: discipleship, the guild, training
Small Groups That Have the DNA of a Disciple-Making Movement
Tags: disciple, discipleship, replication, small group
A Group Exercise
David Watson put an image up on the screen. “I want you to take a look at this image.” After a few seconds, he blanked the screen. “Now, describe the image.”
People called out...
Immigrant Europe
Greater Europe Mission Retools to Reach Them
Tags: discipleship, europe, immigrant, leaders
As I watch the landscape of Europe and see the economic, political, social, and religious upheaval all across that great continent, I am reminded of God’s promise in John 16:33: “These things I...
What’s Missing in Our Great “Come-Mission?”
The Role of Reproducing Evangelism, Disciple-Making and Church Planting for Ordinary Believers
Tags: church planting, discipleship, evangelism, great commission
In May 2007 my national partner baptized Joe, a Muslim-background believer. Instead of taking Joe to church, we taught him how to make disciples and start multiplying churches. Less than three...
Editorial Comment
Moving From Attracting Spectators to Equipping Disciple-Makers
Tags: america, church planting, discipleship, willow creek
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...
Religion-Bashing or Faith-Sowing
Tags: discipleship
Here in the U.S., we are in our once-every-four-year presidential election cycle. Just hearing some of the back-and-forth makes me wonder if our “system” really does work as well as it used to....
“In Praise of Short-term Missions”
Tags: discipleship, mission, short-term mission
Well, I’m pretty sure the title for this column has never before appeared in the pages of MF. While troubles remain in the theory and practice of short-term missions (STMs), this issue shows that...
Feeding the Wolves
Tags: discipleship, evangelism, salvation, training
The intensifying pace of world evangelism is feeding the wolves. Sheep are dying at an ever-increasing pace.
The problem? Decisions are taking precedence over discipleship. In the process, there...
Disciple Making & Church Planting
God’s Way to Transform Nations
Tags: church planting, discipleship, nations, transformation, ywam
Excerpted from You See Bones, I See an Army: Changing the Way We Do Church1
Jesus bypassed the cumbersome religious structures and irrelevant worship practices of his day, and started something...
John Wesley’s Church Planting Movement:
Discipleship That Transformed a Nation and Changed the World
Tags: church planting, discipleship, methodists, movement, poverty, wesley
When John Wesley was born in 1703, four million out of Britain’s five million people lived in absolute poverty—unless they found enough food for that day, they would begin to starve to death.
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