Resources in Discipling
Class 10: Discipling People who Are Hurting
IntroductionPicture these situations: • A close friend calls, his wife just died in a tragic accident. • One of the members of your small group just got fired from work. • Your wife suffers with chronic pain that affects everything she does. • A young wife comes to your door in tears. Her husband has […]
Posted in SermonMay 10, 2017Class 11: Biblical Accountability
IntroductionPicture these scenarios: • Jonathan struggles with internet pornography, but is ashamed to talk about it. • Debbie gets angry with her children, but desires to fight the anger. • Wendy knows she is in an aggressive career, and that if she doesn’t be careful, it will overtake her life. One of the greatest lies […]
Posted in SermonMay 10, 2017Class 12: Hazards & Joys of Discipling
I. IntroductionSadly, this is the last class of the Core seminar on Discipling. I hope that you are leaving this class more excited about discipling others than you were coming in. In this final week, we want touch on two final subjects: (1) the dangers of discipling, both to the discipler and the disciple; and […]
Posted in SermonMay 10, 2017Class 9: Encouraging a Passion for Evangelism & Missions
Today we are going to cover the topics of evangelism and missions. With our limited time, we are barely going to skim the surface of both topics. But I encourage you to read further and to consider attending missions and evangelism core seminars that go into much more detail on both of these topics. / […]
Posted in SermonMay 10, 2017Class 1: What Is Discipling?
If you have been a Christian for very long you have probably heard words like “disciple” and “discipling” used in a number of different contexts. As we begin this morning it might be helpful to get a better understanding of the images and ideas that those words bring to mind. What do you think of […]
Posted in SermonSeptember 7, 2016Class 2: Why Disciple?
IntroductionWhy would you want to disciple someone? Because you have to, i.e. you feel it is an obligation? Because you want to, i.e. because you have found some form of motivation that makes you want to do it? Last week, we said that every Christian is called to a ministry of discipleship, whether it is […]
Posted in SermonApril 25, 2016Class 3: Overcoming Barriers & Excuses
Basic idea:We’ve thought about what discipling generally looks like, and have seen that Jesus calls all of us to disciple others. And we have looked at why disciple at all, concluding that it is immensely important for our joy and for God’s glory. Now, this week we’ll look at some barriers or excuses for not […]
Posted in SermonApril 25, 2016Class 4: The Importance of Holiness
Introduction: Brief Review of First 3 WeeksLet’s start with a brief reminder of what we having been doing up till now. Week 1 – we started by setting out a definition of discipleship, which we defined as: The intentional encouragement of Christians on the basis of deliberate, loving relationships and training in God’s Word. Intentional […]
Posted in SermonApril 25, 2016Class 5: Discipling in the Local Church
IntroductionOver the last four weeks we have thought a great deal about the topic of discipleship. We have asked the question “What is discipling?” and have concluded that it is the deliberately, intentionally relating to another Christian with the aim of doing them good spiritually. We have asked “Why engage in discipling?” and concluded that […]
Posted in SermonApril 25, 2016Class 6: Encouraging Careful Bible Study
Once again, welcome to the CORE seminar on discipling, where we’re spending 13 weeks looking at how to disciple others in Christ. Introduction: Why are we talking about Spiritual Disciplines? At the outset of this class it may be worthwhile to ask the question that some today might ask “why are we talking about spiritual […]
Posted in SermonApril 25, 2016