Duane Elmer recalls asking national pastors what missionaries could do to minister more effectively the gospel of Christ in their culture. He writes, "I was not sure what I was expecting. But the answers did surprise me…

Jonathan Edwards helped us move to Africa. It sounds funny to say that, given that he lived and died so many years ago now. But, I was doing a lot of thinking at the time about Christians and the financially poor…

Christianity is not just a doing religion. It is a religion based on certain truths, certain great realities, and if you don’t understand or believe those, you will never understand how…

Different images may come into your minds when I say you as a discipler need to teach. One person may think of someone at school, another a coach. There are at least two different kinds of teaching that I am convinced you need to pursue becoming better at if you are going to disciple others…

We have been working our way through a process of discipleship. In other words, how do we actually disciple someone else? 1.) We must follow Jesus. 2.) We must pursue people…

One of the primary goals of discipleship is to help someone else mature spiritually. But what does spiritual maturity actually look like? There’s a sense in which that question is easier to answer and difficult…

In order to disciple someone well, you need to understand where they are at spiritually. In the previous few posts, we have been considering different spiritual conditions or stages…

A third possible spiritual condition is that of a spiritual child. You remember how John says, I am writing to you children. The person you are discipling might be spiritually dead, a spiritual baby, or they might be a spiritual child…