An amazing move of God is sweeping around the world today. Millions are coming to Christ and tens of thousands of churches are being planted as disciples make disciples who make disciples. If you look closely at what is taking place, you will see how incredible it is. What started in several out of the […]
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The Wildest Experience of My Life
Earlier this year I had the strangest and maybe most powerful experience of my life. The story actually starts 11 years ago. October 2006, A Dream On October 16, 2006, I had the most vivid dream of my life. The dream had three scenes. In the Scene 1, I was traveling through the countryside. It […]
If You Want People to Grow Spiritually, Quit Telling them to Study the Bible
I love to study the Bible but recently my Bible study led me to a surprising conclusion: We should quit telling people to study the Bible, and start telling them to meditate on and delight in it. This is what happened. I was teaching a class on how to study the Bible and in preparation […]
You Don’t Understand the First Thing About Discipleship
I hate to tell you this, but you don’t understand the first thing about discipleship. I was the same way. I had taught and written about discipleship for thirty years, and discipled many people both one-on-one and in small cadres. But recently I realized that my primary assumption about discipleship was wrong. What am I […]
Discovery Group Format 2.0
A new way of doing small groups is sweeping around the world. Instead of focusing on learning and talking about the Bible—as we have so often done in the past—the Discovery Group format focuses on listening to and immediately obeying the Bible. The change is subtle but powerful and brings wonderful results. The simple Discovery […]
How to End Your Small Group
I hate to break it to you, but your small group is going to end. Every small group, even the very best, is going to close someday. Jesus is no longer meeting in person here with his twelve disciples, and you are not going to do life indefinitely with the wonderful people in your current […]
What Do You Study in a Discovery Group?
How do we make disciples who make disciples who make disciples? Recently an exciting new method of doing this is sweeping around the world. It’s called the Disciple-Making Movement. At its heart are Discovery Groups focused on discipleship—obeying everything Jesus commanded. (Matthew 28:18-20) In an earlier post I wrote about how a discovery group works, […]
A New Small Group Method for Making Disciples Who Make Disciples
A simple but revolutionary way of doing evangelism and small groups is sweeping the globe. It started in India but it’s rocking the world. In suburbs of San Francisco, slums of South America, and Muslim tribes of Africa, the lost are being won, disciples are being mobilized, and churches are multiplying. It’s called the “Disciple-Making […]
Why Small Group Coaching is So Important
For 20 years I have been researching what makes small groups grow. This has involved many rounds of data gathering and careful statistical analysis. Over and over again the results reveal: The most important factor for the health and growth of a group ministry is coaching. For some reason, I woke up at 2:30am today […]
The Next Big Thing in Small Groups
Ka-Blam! My concepts of how to do small groups, evangelism, and discipleship, just blew up. I thought I knew a lot about these things. I’ve been a pastor, small group writer, and small group consultant for 30 years. I even did my Ph.D. research on what makes groups grow. But recently my paradigms of small […]