The Christian centre of gravity (the place on earth you must stand to have the equal number of Christians to your north and south, and east and west) is moving South-Eastwards by 150 yards every day!
STOP BELIEVING THESE DISCIPLESHIP MYTHS.
❌ Myth #1: Every individual Christian must be able to make another disciple
✅ Truth: The whole church is involved in disciple-making. It takes a "body." It's not about "disciples who make disciples" (as if it's up to each individual). It's about disciples who play their part in making disciples.
❌ Myth #2: Your church needs a step-by-step pathway for making disciples
✅ Truth: Most people don't grow in a linear way. And many people have worked through the "steps" or "pathway" and are still pretty spiritually immature. It's not about a step-by-step plan. It's about a vision, framework, and ecosystem that allows disciples to grow over time.
❌ Myth #3: If we get people in small groups, they will grow as disciples
✅ Truth: Small groups are an extremely valuable piece of the discipleship ecosystem. But they are not a silver bullet.
❌ Myth #4: Our church needs a Discipleship ministry
✅ Truth: Your church IS a Discipleship ministry. The whole church with the whole gospel making whole disciples. If there's something your church is doing that doesn't contribute to that mission, it's worth revisiting.
❌ Myth #5: Discipleship is overwhelming
✅ Truth: It only feels overwhelming because you've likely not figured out how to explain it in a simple way that people can engage with.
“In reading Chesterton, as in reading MacDonald, I did not know what I was letting myself in for. A young man who wishes to remain a sound Atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. There are traps everywhere... God is, if I may say it, very unscrupulous.” - C.S. Lewis
This Burnham campaign video deserves a retweet (and many more). Take a look at the vast (shady) money and professional media operation behind Reform. It’s going to be an existential battle.Wherever you stand on the Labour leadership, this seat must be won.
"There are many ways evil people attack those they hate. First and foremost, they physically harm them. They burn, rape and kill. Then they shame and terrorise them: celebrating massacres, live-streaming murders. But there is one weapon far more devastating than all of this. It’s cheap and widely available. That weapon is, of course, silence," writes the great @camillalong
https://t.co/NCNobwhGll
Not all theological arguments are actually about theology.
The woman at the well in John 4 is uncomfortable about her own situation, so she brings up a theological debate.
It's always easier to argue over doctrine than to confront the uncomfortable truths about yourself.
I've created a Zack Polanski CV generator which refreshes each time it's opened - so every time you see it there's new roles that Zack's worked in
https://t.co/bVl9BoOgqb
This is a brilliant investigative piece on Farage, the dark millions behind him and the double standards of so much British journalism. Read and retweet! Nigel Farage pocketing £5m from a donor shows he’s unfit for power https://t.co/zHuVfDV8dh
I’ve had some embarrassing exchanges on picket lines over the years, but having your own students addressing you as ‘Mr Phillips’ over a megaphone, in uniform, while you’re wearing, a clown costume has to hurt…
I’ve had some embarrassing exchanges on picket lines over the years, but having your own students addressing you as ‘Mr Phillips’ over a megaphone, in uniform, while you’re wearing, a clown costume has to hurt…
A powerful diagnosis of the poison of anti-Semitism - and the imperative of all critics of Israel and sympathetic to Palestine to self-police and not deepen the well. Zak Polanski and the Greens please note.The shrinking of Jewish life in Britain via @FT
https://t.co/0pKpZ41ADO
The details I’ve not shared yet are chilling. I didn’t know that Maoist struggle sessions really were a thing - until I met the cadre of Sutton Lib Dems. People literally stood at meetings and read out denunciations and asked me to agree. Against my conscience!
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