Category: Discipleship
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Concept 4: Quiet Time

Concept 4: Quiet Time The world revolves around relationships. Sometimes we get confused and lose sight of the relational aspects and focus on the myriad of things to be done. We have become a culture of the To-Do list. Tasks and goals begin to win out over friends and family. What a tragedy. Unfortunately, our…
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Concept 3: Forgiveness of Sin/ Obedience of the Believer

Concept 3: Forgiveness of Sin/ Obedience of the Believer What happens when I sin after I become a Christian? Does God still love me? Am I still a Christian? What is up – I thought Christians didn’t sin? What should I do? These questions and ones like them rage through the mind of the believer…
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Concept 2: Security of the Believer

Concept 2: Security of the Believer Imagine yourself in a vault at Fort Knox. You are surrounded by the untold riches of gold bullion stored there. The door is firmly secured and will not be opened until morning. There is a fully functioning life support system inside the vault and ample food supply for a…
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Concept 1: Gospel Review

Concept 1: Gospel Review Talk through the Gospel (feel free to use the Bridge Illustration, the 4 Spiritual Laws or whatever you know) and discuss. The gospel means “good news”. Literally the good news that we have a way for our sin to be forgiven through the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Paul…
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Will You Follow Thru

This is the introduction to our Follow Thru study to help new believers get started in their new found faith… download the complete resource here. For the disciplemaker this material contains the first concepts that we recommend you work through with someone you are just starting to meet with… Follow Thru Welcome to the family…
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The Goal is Disciplemakers!

by The Howitzer I think that the church is confused with the goal. How do I know this? Because I am a member of the church. I am not talking about my local body, though we are guilty as well. There is as old discipleship adage that says that Jesus loved the world, He helped…
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How Long Does it Take to Raise Up a Fourth Generation?

by the Howitzer What if I told you that it might take a decade before you saw a 4th generation in your discipleship ministry? Would that be a deal breaker for you? What if I told you that some guys that you invested a lot of time in would never raise up a third generation?…
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You Can’t Call It Discipleship Until There is a 4th Generation

by the Howitzer Many of us dream of the day where this picture of us (even though these guys are stock photo guys) will be true. Loving great grandfathers being able to see and touch our legacy. I will never get to experience that. My grandfather (Watt) died when my dad (Charles) was only 2…