Something isn’t right…
A lot of Christ followers aren’t following Christ anymore, and you probably know some of them: The Ex-vangelicals, the Nones, Dones, the De-converted or the De-churched.
If the “news” is such good news, why the burnout and turnout rates with Pastors? What’s behind the mute-ness and inert-ness and uncertain-ness of the people who are known as “disciples” of Jesus, the Christ? What’s going on here?
Whatever “it” is – it’s inside and outside. It’s inside the church walls, impacting staff and congregations alike. It’s affecting seminaries, missionaries, family and friends. Even outside, the watching world is noticing. It’s almost as if discipleship has been “hacked”.
What to do? Now that’s a really good question!
Let’s have a conversation:
In person or in-virtual, Dennis wants to talk to you – as leaders, pastors, ministers, leaders of small groups, deacons, bishops, elders and professors.
It isn’t your fault. Yet now….it’s your purpose and call to lead us out of this!
mem·ber | \ ˈmem-bər \ (Merriam Webster Dictionary, 2022) Definition of member 1: a body part or organ 2: one of the individuals composing a group 3: a person baptized or enrolled in a church Many of the efforts to reclaim discipleship
Let me tell you about Glodys (pronounced “Glow-deese”). He was the discipler, I was the disciple. Glodys and his wife Barbara walked into a class I was leading at our church one Sunday morning in
One of the popular ideas offered up to leaders in attempts to improve discipleship is better training for individuals. If we teach them better, so the idea goes, disciples will awaken, rational thinking about what
“The Christian life comes to mean nothing more than living in the world and as the world, in being no different from the world, in fact, in being prohibited from being different from the world
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January 2022 segement: Catch and Release Christianity
