Evangelistic Discipleship

I’ve heard the com­plaint many times that the church does not engage in dis­ci­ple­ship, or at least does not dis­ci­ple as it should. Hope­fully (well, usu­ally) the dis­cus­sions turn to what I think is most impor­tant ini­tial ques­tion: what do we mean by dis­ci­ple­ship? As I said in my pre­vi­ous post, it has been sug­gested that by dis­ci­ple­ship we should include evan­ge­lis­tic and wit­ness­ing out­reaches.... Read More

Discipleship: What do we Mean?

I’ve heard many Chris­tians raise con­cern or oth­er­wise com­plain about the (lack of) dis­ci­ple­ship in the church. What I often find con­fus­ing is the dif­fer­ent mean­ings of the word ‘dis­ci­ple­ship’ that peo­ple use. One exam­ple I heard recently is from a pas­tor who has defined dis­ci­ple­ship so as to include wit­ness­ing and evan­ge­lis­tic out­reaches towards those who have not accepted Jesus. This def­i­n­i­tion... Read More